Registration of .au domains by foreigners

10 11 2011

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Carnegie Fund invests $3 million in domain industry company

03 11 2011

It has been reported that the Carnegie Fund, a fund supported by the Australian Government through the Innovation Investment Fund (IIF) program has invested $3 million in

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VIC and NSW Governments team up for new GTLD tender

26 10 2011

The Victorian and New South Wales governments have teamed up to open a tender for the application and provision of registry services for new GTLDs including .melbourne an

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Record domain name sale – investmentproperty.com.au

15 09 2011

In a sign that the .au domain name market is hotting up investmentproperty.com.au today sold for $125,001 (plus GST) to Mad Cat Pty Ltd, which appears to be the operator

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auDA moves to abolish resale restrictions

05 09 2011

.au Domain Administrator, auDA, today announced that it had accepted the recommendations of the Secondary Market Working Group, which included the highly controversial pr

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5 year sentence for stealing a domain name

27 07 2011

Daniel Goncalves a Union County man has been sentenced to a term of 5 years imprisonment for the theft and sale of the domain name P2P.com, in what is believed to be the

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Keeping it clean: trade mark owners and .xxx domains

11 07 2011

In September 2011, the adult industry will get its own internet ‘red light district’ when the new .xxx top-level domains become available for registration. ICM Reg

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ICANN Approves New GTLDs

20 06 2011

The ICANN Board meeting in Singapore, today approved the expansion of top level domain names. The vote means that applicants may now seek to create their own domain na

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ICA files letter of comment on URS

16 05 2011

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), the peak body representing domain name investors and developers, has filed its letter of comment to ICANN concerning the revised

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auDA Calls for Public Comment

03 05 2011

auDA, the Australian Domain Name Regulator has today released the draft recommendations of the 2010 Names Policy Panel for public comment. The 2010 Names Policy Panel

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