The .au Blog

As one of many organisations that contribute to the secure operation of Australia’s critical infrastructure, we have a keen interest in the government’s Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020 (the Bill). Here we provide a summary of our submission on the Bill.

Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has begun but commentators are predicting an increase in COVID-19 related scams. In this blog we share tips to help people avoid falling victim to scams.

The rules for Australia's State and Territory namespaces (e.g. vic.au, nt.au) are changing to allow a wider range of organisations to register localised .au domain names.

The new .au licensing rules contain a change which affects foreign com.au and net.au registrants who use a trade mark to meet the eligibility requirements.

Unincorporated organisations may be impacted by upcoming rule changes in the org.au namespace but they may be eligible to maintain an org.au under one of the 11 eligible categories of not-for-profits.