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 [...]
bank scams grow in Australia
Bank scams: The Australian Banking Association (ABA) released an awareness report and campaign about the increasing threat of scams. Last year in Australia $851 million was lost to scams. [...]
Penetration Testing: How to choose a supplier?
Penetration Testing aka pen testing has become a critical part of securing a business' critical applications and networks. The market has a range of players, some that rely on [...]
Universities and brand protection
This blog looks at the issue of Universities and brand protection. The university sector is a significant part of the Australian economy. The market size of the University and Other [...]
China: What domain space do big companies prefer?
Kasey Lee recently wrote a great piece on Domain Wire about what domain namespaces the Fortune 100 Chinese companies prefer. The research spanned three years and the results were [...]
Brand Protection: AdultBlock
Who is AdultBlock/AdultBlock+ for? For Sunrise B block owners: Sunrise B blocks, which prevented registrations of brand names under .xxx, will expire in December 2021. The blocks will automatically be [...]
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 [...]
fake university recruitment agents
Fake university recruitment agents are a problem for Australian Universities. They pretend to be partners of various Australian universities in an attempt to either scam hopeful students or process them [...]
Monitor for domain abuse: be proactive, not reactive
Domain abuse is the infringement of intellectual property that is used for illegal, improper, fraudulent or malicious purposes. Cyber-criminals use domain name abuse to steal data, scam the target business [...]
Bug: Hackers could spy on Google, AWS DNS traffic
Security firm Wiz, announced that they had discovered a simple loophole that allows the interception a portion of dynamic DNS traffic from all Internet traffic that was routed through managed DNS [...]
Let’s Encrypt exploited for fraudulent SSL certificates
As reported by encrytion specialist John Layden, Security shortcomings in the mechanism used by Let’s Encrypt to validate web domain ownership create a loophole that allow cybercriminals to get digital [...]
SPF records, from nice to have to must have
SPF records are critical to all businesses, small to enterprise. Have you ever received an email that looks like it is from a Bank but it is actually from a [...]