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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced that the Personal Property Securities (PPS) Register will commence on 30 January 2012.

The PPS has been touted as one of the greatest legal reforms in recent times – the PPS has reformed the way in which personal property securities are registered. The PPS will incorporate all corporate charges currently registered with ASIC.

The PPS was to have commenced operations last year but was delayed.

For the first time the PPS will allow security interests to be registered over intellectual property.

We will write more about the PPS in the coming weeks.

Tags: domain name, Intellectual Property, Personal Property Securities, PPS, PPSR, Trade Mark
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We have recently seen some high profile domain names that haven’t been renewed by registrants.

Much of the time domain names are not renewed because they are no longer required, but on occasion, the registrant contact email is not updated after an employee leaves a business or a business stops using an email address.

Recently, Bunnings forgot to renew hardware.com.au, which was quickly snapped up by Woolworths, presumably for use in their hardware business. In this case, the registrant email address was not valid, which is likely to be the reason that the domain name was not renewed.

The consequences of this may be catastrophic for a business, but it need not happen.

Here are some simple tips to avoid your domain name accidentally expiring:

1. use generic email addresses as the registrant contact address, which forward emails to multiple people in an organisation;
2. diarise the expiry date of your domains;
3. maintain a consolidated intellectual property register which contains details of all of your valuable intellectual property such as domain names and trademarks;
4. use an automatic renewal function – most registrars have this service available, just ask;

In almost all cases, simply following these tips will help you avoid expiry. Remember once a domain name expires it becomes available (after a grace period) for registration by anyone else including your competitors. Protect it or lose it!

Domain name lawyers like Cooper Mills are constantly helping clients recover domain names, but prevention is better than cure….

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In an auction conducted by Drop.com.au yesterday, domain name hardware.com.au sold for a record $33,333.

Hardware.com.au was an expired domain name which Bunnings forgot to renew. It is believed that the purchaser is Woolworths (through their advertising agency) who plan to start a competing hardware business in Australia.

No doubt heads will roll at Bunnings when they learn that a potential competitor has acquired the domain.

Values of .au names have increased dramatically over the past 12 months, however, many investors are still reluctant to invest money in .au due to heavy regulation, some of which amounts to censorship of content.

Tags: domain law, domain lawyer, domain name, domain name lawyer, IT Law
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.au name space to become more secure with the rollout of DNSSEC

Details of the rollout of Domain Names System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the .au domain name space have recently been released by the au Domain Administration (auDA).

Developed in conjunction with the .au registry operator, AusRegistry, the plan consists of a five stage process to introduce DNSSEC into the .au Top Level Domain (TLD) and second –level zones, including com.au, net.au, org.au and asn.au.

DNSSEC is a security extension that facilitates the digital signing of internet communications. Implementation of the plan hopes to see additional protection against a range of vulnerabilities.  AuDA CEO, Chris Disspain has said in an auDA announcement that “DNSSEC can provide an extra level of security to help ensure that Australian internet users will be directed to the website or service they expect to enter when they enter a domain name into their browser.”

Implementation is scheduled to commence next month and allows for:

-          Experimentation and testing of core systems

-          The gradual signing of second level .au domains and the .au TLD

-          A trail implementation for .au domain registrants, and

-          Full protection rollout to registrants

A review to be undertaken by auDA’s independent Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), chaired by professor Bill Caelli from the Queensland University of Technology, will be conducted at the end of each stage.

The fifth, and vital stage of the implementation plan will be the active encouragement of Australian ISPs and domain registrants to adopt DNSSEC. auDA believes that the Australian Government will play a significant role in delivering to the ISPs, the message about the importance of DNSSEC for the security of Australia’s internet infrastructure.

We will keep you updated as the implementation process rolls out.

Tags: auDA, DNSSEC, domain law, domain lawyer, domain name, domain name lawyer, domainers, domains, IT Law, technology law, technology lawyer
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