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Biggest VPN Merges With Domain Name Association

10 August 202011 August 2020 Ashlee 1963 Views

The Domain Name Association (DNA) and the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) announced they’re combining into North America’s largest internet infrastructure

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Telstra “Attack” Not Malicious – Actually DNS Issue

10 August 202011 August 2020 Ashlee 2120 Views

Telstra initially believed it was the victim of a “malicious” cyber-attack last week, but it turned out that the issue

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Coinbase Adds Support For Crypto Domains

10 August 202011 August 2020 Ashlee 1809 Views

The crypto exchange Coinbase, based in San Fransisco, has partnered with Unstoppable Domains to provide support for .crypto web domains.

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Don’t Lose Your Parked Domain Like This Reader

31 July 202031 July 2020 Ashlee 2161 Views

Recently a member of our audience called Phil reached out to share a story of how he lost his domain

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AUS $12.2 Million Acquisition of Australian Domain Name Registrar

25 July 202023 June 2022 Ashlee 2948 Views

Web.com, the domain name company, has just acquired Webcentral Group. WebCentral focuses on the Australian market and has 330,000 customers

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Verisign Gets Into Blockchain Domain Names

25 July 202025 July 2020 Ashlee 2199 Views

Verisign, one of the biggest players in the domain name registry game, has been given a block-chain based patent. Block-chain

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Islanders Demand Return Of .IO Domain Extension

13 July 202013 July 2020 Ashlee 2116 Views

The .io domain name extension is currently in question as the original owners ask for it to be returned. In

International Domain Name News

Millions Of Websites On Blogspot.in Inaccessible As Google Drops The Ball

13 July 202013 July 2020 Ashlee 2049 Views

Google’s Blogger site, “blogspot.in”, in India is going through some trouble at the moment as millions of blogs are inaccessible.

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Beware Of Unauthorised Business Use – “UBU”

9 July 20209 July 2020 Neddy 4578 Views

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…

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auDA Needs To Audit ORG.au Again

7 July 20207 July 2020 Neddy 2665 Views

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.

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auDA Talks A Good Game

6 July 20207 July 2020 Neddy 2695 Views

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”.

money.com.au – $400,000
superannuation.com.au $250,000
pay.com.au – $168,000
fetch.com.au – $132,000
moneybuddy.com.au – $104,500
sleep.com.au – $100,000
broker.com.au – $100,000
lifeinsurance.com.au – $100,000
basketball.com.au – $99,000
dabble.com.au – $98,000
link.com.au – $66,000
synergy.com.au – $65,000
sumo.com.au – $63,250
urban.com.au – $59,820
finder.com.au – $55,000
bega.com.au – $50,000
land.com.au – $50,000
cpa.com.au – $50,000
shift.com.au – $46,000
more.com.au – $31,000
amber.com.au $27,500
topdesk.com.au $27,000
advice.com.au – $26,100
gas.com.au – $25,000
uc.com.au – $23,100
cadence.com.au – $22,500
ash.com.au – $17,600
rfm.com.au – $17,050
meditate.com.au – $16,500
resolve.com.au $16,500
bre.com.au $16,500
tradingroom.com.au – $15,000
Unfortunately many of the top
domain sales are under NDA.