Statements

The auDA Board of Directors is pleased to announce it has appointed two Directors to the auDA Board and selected two candidates for its upcoming Elected Director Ballot.

auDA will proceed to public consultation this year on draft updates to the .au Licensing Rules, to give effect to the recommendations of the .au Licensing Rules Review.

The Winston Churchill Trust, in partnership with .au Domain Administration Limited (auDA), is pleased to announce Catherine Brown and Anthony Wylde as the recipients of the 2026 auDA Churchill Fellowship.

The Policy Advisory Panel has concluded its Review and provided its Final Report to the auDA Board. At its August 2026 meeting the auDA Board resolved to approve the Panel’s Recommendations in the Final Report in-principle and directed auDA Management to prepare an Implementation Plan that takes into account the impact of the Recommendations.

On 1 October 2026, auDA will introduce a Quality Performance Index (QPI) Program for auDA accredited .au registrars (registrars) to strengthen trust and integrity of the .au domain, and the wholesale price of a .au domain name licence per year will increase from AUD$8.64 to AUD$9.50 (ex GST) (effective 1 October 2026 00:00 UTC).

Applications for auDA’s 2026 Community Grant Program open today, with $750,000 in funding available for projects that deliver tangible benefits for under-served communities.

New auDA research shows small businesses underestimate their cyber risk: one in three think they are too small to be targeted and nearly half believe that if large organisations cannot avoid cyber attacks, they have little chance of protecting their own business.

auDA has become aware that in limited cases personal information, including government issued identifiers associated with the identity documents, of .au domain name registrants was visible when the domain name was queried on the public .au WHOIS service.

auDA’s independent Nomination Committee seeks expressions of interest from candidates for three non-Executive Director roles on the auDA Board.

auDA has today opened two consultations for which it seeks community feedback.

auDA has become aware that personal contact information about certain .au domain name registrants was disclosed .au registrar Crazy Domains.

auDA has implemented the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) for the .au domain, providing a new way for machine-to-machine access to .au domain name registration information.