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The administrator of the .au domain name system (DNS), auDA has launched of its new website, providing an “enhanced user experience” and helping users find the information they need about .au and auDA with ease.

domain administrator auDA has announced its new Research and Development (R&D) Grant Program, which it says will support large-scale research and development projects.

The au Domain Administration (auDA), the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, today launches the inaugural Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy Australia (APIGA Australia), an intensive two day event to be held in Melbourne over 20-21 November 2024.

Rosemary Sinclair AM will step down at the year’s end as CEO of domain administrator auDA.

Australian domain administrator auDA wants to educate law enforcers on how the internet works to improve their literacy and train them so they can be prepared to respond to cybercrime.

The auDA Foundation's 2023 community grant round will make $600,000 available to 15 new education, research and community-based projects that enhance the utility of the internet.

The au Domain Administration, the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, says it has completed investigating claims of a breach of its site and says there is no evidence to back up such a claim.

The au Domain Administration, the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, now says attackers who claimed they had breached its network have provided evidence of the breach.

The au Domain Administration, the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, says it has found no evidence of a breach that was notified to it on Friday afternoon.

The upcoming AsiaPacific Regional Internet Governance Forum in Brisbane will focus on emerging technologies and drive discussions on whether the Asia Pacific is ready for the next phase of the Internet.

The number of domains in the overall .au namespace increased 22 percent to 4,160,209, according to auDA's latest quarterly report.

Established .au domain holders have just four weeks to register the matching .au direct domain before they lose priority.

The auDA Foundation has opened application for its 2022 grant round, committing $600,000 funding for education, research, and community-based projects that will improve how Australians access and benefit from the internet.

Australia’s domain administrator auDA had 170,000 .au direct names registered by the end of the June 2022 quarter and CEO Rosemary Sinclair says this growth and the registration milestone can be attributed to registrants’ trust and confidence in .au and the strong uptake of Australia’s newest namespace: .au direct.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has launched a site that can be used to check one's website, email and Internet connection to see whether the latest and most secure standards are being used.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has found that 17 countries are responsible for most of the disinformation spread through Twitter, none of which are from the Five Eyes grouping. Europe is largely absent too. Who knew?

A number of sites with Australian domain names did not resolve correctly on Tuesday afternoon, giving rise to speculation that a move by auDA, the domain administrator, to offer a new .au domain was the cause.

It looks like the defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, is running low on funds. Nothing else can account for the surfacing of its executive director Peter Jennings on the opinion pages of The Australian, conjuring up a fictional version of a Chinese bid to grab Taiwan.

The auDA Foundation, supported by .au domain authority auDA, is offering five $40,000 competitive grants for new education or research projects that enhance the utility of the Internet in the areas of digital inclusion (with an emphasis on First Nations peoples), cyber security for small business, and Internet access for young Australians.

Domain names administrator auDA is launching a new domain - .au direct - which it says will complement the existing suite of Australian namespaces, for example com.au and org.au.