AUDA Cyber Incident Summary
21 August 2023
Late last week, the Australian Domain Name Governing Body, auDA, was notified of a claimed security breach by cybercriminals. Upon receiving evidence of the alleged breach, auDA immediately initiated an investigation. The subsequent findings revealed that the...
Registrars Responsibility to Address Phishing Domains
Phishing domain names
A phishing domain name is a domain name that is registered to look like a legitimate domain name. Phishing domain names are used in phishing attacks, which are attempts to trick people into revealing personal information, such as passwords or credit card...
Abuse of AU Policy: Registrant Impersonation
16 May 2023
In Australia, the .com.au domain name is the preferred choice for businesses. It is trusted by brands and consumers alike and is well-regulated by Australia’s governing body, AUDA. However, bad actors can exploit the .com.au domain name allocation policy by...
AU General Availability – Have a Plan
7 September 2022
With AU due to enter General Availability (GA) within a few weeks, we would like to communicate key dates and our analysis of what GA means for corporate brands.
20 September 2022, the .AU priority allocation process closes. This is the last day Registrants...
.AU SWOT Analysis
3 September 2022
What is .AU?
.au direct refers to domain names registered directly before the .au (e.g. getyour.au).
This is also referred to as a “second level name” or the “.au namespace”. Anyone with a local connection to Australia (including businesses, associations and...
Brands have 4 weeks to register their .au domains
20 August 2022
Brands have four weeks to claim their matching second level domain .au before they become available for anyone to register.
The six-month priority period that gives owners of .com.au, .net.au or org.au domains exclusive access to their corresponding.au domain...
Domain Name Transfers – Policy Review
Thursday 30 June 2022
ICANN’s Transfer Working Group has created an Initial Report about recommended changes to how domain transfers work. The Transfer Policy governs the procedure and requirements for registrants to transfer their domain names from one registrar to...
Do you need a domain name policy?
The purpose of a domain name policy is to give guidance and support to the various stakeholders within a business for the management of the organisations’ domain name portfolio. A domain name policy should be the definitive reference source for how a business and its...
.au contested domains
There will be cases where some of our Clients apply for a domain name that other eligible parties have also applied for. This is referred to as a contested name. It is important to understand what priority category your application is in, as both category 1 and 2 work...
.au domain spoofing: brandcom.au
Domain spoofing is a common form of phishing when a bad actor uses a domain to impersonate a company. They register a domain name that is confusingly similar to the legitimate one in order to trick the intended recipient.The launch of a new .au domain name space will up on 24...
the new .au domain space: what we know
From 24 March 2022, you can apply:
to register new .au direct names that are not already registered in the .au registry (i.e. names are not registered in any existing .au namespace such as com.au or org.au etc.) and;
for the exact match of any existing .au domain name you...
New .AU domain name space
Today AuDA announce the launch of a new .au domain name space, on 24 March 2022. They are calling the project .au direct.
What is .au direct?
.au direct refers to domain names registered directly before the .au (e.g. getyour.au).
Why is .au direct being introduced?
.au...