This blog looks at the important of centralised domain management and the benefits of a coordinated organisational approach. We often come across companies that discover they have domain names they [...]
.AU auDA will change the registration policies and eligibility requirements for .au third level domains (Australia). These new rules will come into effect on April 12, 2021 and are a [...]
Several years ago the ICM Registry launched XXX, .SEX, .ADULT and .PORN. In order to protect TM owners, they also introduced a special blocking phase called Sunrise B, which prevented [...]
Domain Name Information Management It is very important to make sure that your registrant contact details are up to date. Keeping registrant data up to date ensures that you can [...]
When launching a new brand name or campaign, as a business it sometimes can be difficult to determine which TLDs are important for that specific brand or campaign. Here are [...]
Late last year auDA, the administrator of Australia's .au top level domain, reported that the au domain name space only had 0.04 percent of its domain names that was involved [...]
Reverse domain name hijacking Reverse domain name hijacking is no joke. IP owners often wrongly assume that because they hold a trademark, they have rights to the corresponding domain name. [...]
Subdomain Hijacking In our last blog we wrote about the risks of culling or abandoning domain names, but what about subdomains? Arguably, abandoned subdomains pose as much a risk [...]
Culling domain names needs to be discussed. It is not an activity that should be taken lightly and requires a lot of due diligence and careful planning. This blog discusses [...]
AuDA issued an alert, via Twitter, of an email impersonation scam targeting .au registrants requesting for scan of personal documents. Note, AuDA notified customers that they would never go directly [...]
This guidance is based on the Australian Government best practice guide to mitigating cyber security incidents, performing vulnerability assessments and penetration testing Commonwealth organisations. Prior to implementing any of the [...]
Verisign has removed 14 domain names from the list of premium .tv domain names, and will designate the removed domain names as standard priced domain names with the corresponding regular [...]
