Counterfeiting: Be cold and ruthless
Being cold and ruthless against 3rd parties who seek to in some way damage your brand, either financially or reputation, does not mean going to war, rather it's a structured, [...]
Anti-Counterfeiting: Following the money trail
Counterfeiters go to great lengths to mask their true identities, but the one thing that they can not fake is the money trail. The money trail is the flaw in [...]
Educating consumers about the consequences of buying counterfeit
It’s crazy to think that anyone would knowingly compromise their own safety to save a few dollars. Buying brands and products online that are too good to be true should [...]
DNS DDoS Attacks
In May, the Tel Aviv University published findings of a new type of DNS Deliberate Denial of Service (DDoS) attack called a NXNSAttack - a vulnerability in DNS servers that [...]
Dealing with a dodgy domainer
Brokering domain name agreements between buyers and sellers can be a challenging process at the best of times. There is no established process to determine the true market value of [...]
Report: Fake Reviews in Australia, the facts
Online reviews have a significant and quantifiable impact on purchase decisions. Any business owner knows that your most authentic and impactful advocate is a happy customer, and technology has made [...]
Safari changes how we use SSL
Important SSL Announcement Apple has announced that its browser Safari will no longer accept new SSL HTTPS security certificates that expire more than 13 months from its creation date. From [...]
Corporate Risk in Domain Names
The management of corporate risk in domain names looks at all of the methods that a company uses to minimise downtime, unauthorised access and ultimately financial loss and embarrassment. Risk [...]
How to Register a Chinese Domain Name
This blog looks at how to register a Chinese domain name and some of the issues you might face. .CN is a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for mainland China. [...]
eBay and Facebook get tough on fake reviews
eBay and Facebook get tough on fake reviews, banning dozens of groups as a result of the British watchdog probe into the problem. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) remarked [...]
changes to the au domain name space 2020
The Future of .au is bright with changes coming to the au domain name space in 2020. Afilias Australia, the .AU Registry that looks after over 3.2 million domain names [...]
RDAP and AU domain names
What is RDAP? RDAP and AU domain names is a hot topic a the moment. The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is an alternative to WHOIS for accessing Internet resource [...]