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The au Domain Administration, the organisation that manages the Australian domain namespace, will vote on a move to give its directors a hefty pay rise at its forthcoming annual general meeting, with the total targeted figure being $580,000.

The Federal Government does not appear to be overly exercised about reports that Cameron Boardman, the former chief executive of auDA, the Australian domain name administrator, faces accusations of falsifying his academic record and then misleading an investigation into it, before he quit the organisation in July.

The chairman of the board of auDA, Chris Leptos, has quit his post, but the organisation, which oversees the Australian domain namespace, has given no reason for the sudden departure.

The au Domain Administration, the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, has written to the Department of Communications, seeking to end the practice of it having an overseer role with the organisation.

auDA, the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, will hold an extraordinary general meeting on 27 September to vote on a new constitution.

Former auDA director Josh Rowe has issued an apology for comments made last month, in which he characterised the means used for mass recruitment of members to the organisation that manages the .au namespace as being "potential cartel behaviour".

A member of auDA, the organisation that looks after the Australian domain namespace, has lodged a freedom of information request with the Department of Communications and the Arts over what he claims are membership irregularities, where individuals who were Supply-related were granted Demand Class membership.

Tim Connell, a director of auDA, the organisation that looks after the Australian domain namespace, has resigned from the board, citing the approval of 955 foreign-based new members which he said potentially handed over control of the organisation to industry.

The method followed by auDA, the Australian organisation that manages the .au namespace, for voting at general meetings appears to be skewed towards the existing management as the votes of members are weighted differently depending on the outcome.

Motions to remove three directors of auDA, the Australian domain administration, at a special general meeting held on Friday have been rejected by the membership, the organisation says.

In the run-up to the special general meeting to be held by auDA, the Australian domain administrator, on Friday, an analysis of the current membership by one member shows that just four domain name vendors control 70% of those on the rolls.

The Policy Review Panel of the Australian domain administrator, auDA, has raised the hackles of some members by deciding, at an 8 June meeting, to delete past consultations of the panel.

The war of words that has been going on between factions within auDA, the administrator of the Australian domain namespace, will come to a head on 27 July, when the organisation holds a special general meeting called for the express purpose of considering resolutions to get rid of a number of directors.

A member of auDA, the Australian organisation that administers the .au namespace, claims that the membership of the organisation is now dominated by foreigners after 900 employees of several registrars were signed up.

Some members of auDA, the administrator of the Australian domain namespace, who have petitioned for the removal of a number of the organisation's board members at a forthcoming special general meeting, claim that the fight between the two factions in the organisation is one between lawyers.

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.

The directors of the au Domain Administration, the body responsible for the au namespace, have moved to shield chief executive Cameron Boardman, by agreeing not to allow a resolution calling for him to step down at a forthcoming special general meeting to be considered.

The au Domain Administration, the body that looks after the Australian domain namespace, has gone ahead and registered two major direct domain names, despite deciding in the wake of an April government review that direct .au registrations would be put off to the second half of 2019 at the earliest.

The recent turmoil at the au Domain Administration, the organisation that manages the Australian domain namespace, does not seem to have hindered the organisation in any way from increasing the remuneration that its directors receive.

The au Domain Administration, the organisation administers the Australian domain namespace, has appointed three new directors from the demand class to its board.