AUS $12.2 Million Acquisition of Australian Domain Name Registrar
Web.com, the domain name company, has just acquired Webcentral Group. WebCentral focuses on the Australian market and has 330,000 customers
Read more
Verisign Gets Into Blockchain Domain Names
Verisign, one of the biggest players in the domain name registry game, has been given a block-chain based patent. Block-chain
Read more
Islanders Demand Return Of .IO Domain Extension
The .io domain name extension is currently in question as the original owners ask for it to be returned. In
Read more
Millions Of Websites On Blogspot.in Inaccessible As Google Drops The Ball
Google’s Blogger site, “blogspot.in”, in India is going through some trouble at the moment as millions of blogs are inaccessible.
Read more
Beware Of Unauthorised Business Use – “UBU”
The scammers are really going for it again. They are illegally using the business details of others to register .au domains. This can obviously cause reputational damage to innocent parties e.g. scammers can put up a fake eCommerce sites and rip off the public. Check out the story here…
Read more
auDA Needs To Audit ORG.au Again
Some years ago, auDA audited .org.au domain names to make sure these were being used for a proper purpose i.e. as per auDA policy the org.au 2LD is for non-commercial organisations.
It appears that with no follow up audits, the growth in org.au domains has outstripped all other extensions.
Read more
auDA Talks A Good Game
Last Friday, I saw a post from Afilias (on LinkedIn) which motivated me to write this article.
The topic was a short interview with Steph Viljoen from auDA. Her position is “Compliance and Analytics Manager”.
GoDaddy Offers 3 New Levels of Domain Privacy – Upgrade or Ripoff?
Recently GoDaddy announced that it will be removing most personal information from Whois records. People who have paid for full
Read more
New Blockchain Domain Names To Be Offered
It looks like Tezos may be following Etherium by beginning to offer domain names. Tezos is an Ethereum-like blockchain cryptocurrency
Read more
Supreme Court Rules Trademark for Generic Booking.com
The Supreme Court of the U.S ruled that Booking.com can get a trademark for its name on Tuesday. Booking.com is
Read more
More Than 80% of Forbes 2000 Companies Have Poorly Protected Domains
A large proportion of the Forbes Global 2000 companies web domains are vulnerable to DNS attacks, domain hijacking, and other
Read more