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American technology company Neustar says the new manager of the .au domain namespace, Afilias, has made a number of incorrect assertions about the time when Neustar was managing the .au namepsace, and issued a blog post about what it says are claims that need to be clarified.

The transfer of the .au namespace to a new registry and national domain name infrastructure run by Afilias Australia has been completed on the first day of the new financial year.

Australia now has 3 million .au domains under management, putting us in the top 10 of all countries by volume.

.au is one of the 10 biggest country code domains, but it is becoming a mature market.

If you've ever thought of registering a .net.au domain, May 2014 might be the time to act.

The first of the new top-level domains to go live could be شبكة. (.shabaka, roughly equivalent to .web), which is to be powered by Melbourne-based ARI Registry Services.

A proposal by auDA to impose tight security requirements on domain name registrars has gained wide approval but the head of the largest registrar, NetRegistry, warns that it could be overly onerous, and drive smaller registrars out of the market.

A subsidiary of the company that operates the .au domain is in the box seat to operate the proposed .sydney, .melbourne and .victoria domains.

The number of domains registered in the .au space continues to rise exponentially, according to a new report.

According to a report prepared by Deloitte Access Economics, the .au ccTLD contributes nearly half a billion dollars to the Australian economy.

ICANN has approved a plan that may herald a massive expansion of the number of generic top level domains.

Australia's Internet and business communities spent last night reflecting on 3,000 years of Egyptian civilisation and the role of technology in that ancient society, while also celebrating 25 years of .au domain names and the benefits delivered to the Australian economy.

Melbourne based company AusRegistry International has just signed its third Middle Eastern contract to operate Internet infrastructure in the Middle East.

Australian registrations of the .au second level country domain has hit the 2 million mark, putting it into the top 10 country codes worldwide. Despite a preponderance for businesses worldwide to go for top level domains, Australia has remained one of the countries where businesses, governments and not-for-profit organisations have largely opted to retain the local flavour that the .au domain imparts.