Profit: Aussie domainer reports record sales numbers of 3-letter domains

Posted by DomainGang on May 11, 2023, at 9:05 am

Crikey! It’s raining money Down Under, it seems, as Profit.com.au, an Australian domain investing publication and marketplace shared in recent news. Sales of 3 letter .com.au domain names are approaching record numbers, with May being quite spectacular, apparently. Father and son teamsters, Ned and Luke O’Meara, are thoroughly excited, both for the domain sales numbers […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with .au, .com.au, 3 letter domains, Aussie domainer, Australia, Australian domain investors, Domains, LLL domains, Luke O'Meara, Ned O'Meara

Domain investor won UDRP filed against Ebet.com.au

Posted by DomainGang on April 19, 2023, at 5:29 pm

An Australian domain investor that registered the domain Ebet.com.au in 2021, was hit with a UDRP filed at the WIPO by Intecq Limited, Australia. The Complainant asserted that their right to the EBET mark in 2016 and another fancy mark with EBET in 2009 establish rights in the disputed domain. However, the panelist pointed out […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Australia, Domains, Ebet.com.au, Intecq Limited, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer, ebet

Blimey! Explosive growth of #Aussie domain space in 2022

Posted by DomainGang on February 21, 2023, at 3:22 pm

Strewth, if only Australian domain investors had foreseen the growth of the .au namespace! But Aussie domains did pop up at ludicrous levels last year, with 716,278 new domains in 12 months alone. That’s a growth of 22% across the entire namespace, despite complex policies by auDA that can still be confusing. A new domain […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with .au, Aussie domainers, Australia, David Warmuz, Domains, auDA, investors

LMG.net.au UDRP denied; it’s the Respondent’s initials, dummy!

Posted by DomainGang on January 27, 2023, at 11:13 am

Some Australian companies late to the domain game are using the UDRP process as the “Plan B” approach. In the case of the domain name LMG.net.au, the UDRP was filed by Liquor Marketing Group Ltd, claiming rights to the LMG mark in Australia. It seems that they could have known the acronym matched Leo Mark […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Australia, Australian domains, Domainers, Domains, LMG, LMG.net.au, UDRP, WIPO, deny transfer

Scuba.net.au UDRP drowned with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking decision

Posted by DomainGang on November 30, 2022, at 2:49 pm

An Australian domain name, Scuba.net.au, was the subject of a UDRP filed at the WIPO. The domain is generic and used as a forwarder to Underwater.com.au, a web site with diving resources for Australians. That didn’t stop eScuba Pty Limited from filing a UDRP just because at some point one of its officers owned Scuba.com, […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Australia, Domains, ESCUBA, RDNH, Scuba.net.au, UDRP, WIPO, reverse domain name hijacking, scuba.com

Crikey! There’s gold in them .au domain names!

Posted by DomainGang on October 13, 2022, at 1:18 pm

Welcome to Australia, the land of Oz—Down Under! For the past 8 days, new domain names are being allocated to Australians; they are shorter by dropping the “.com” before the “.au” part. It’s now open season, as existing com.au registrants who did not participate in the priority allocation process that ended are coming to find […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with .au domains, .com.au, Aussie Domains, Australia, Australian, Ned O'Meara

Defensive domain registrations as a political weapon in Australia

Posted by DomainGang on August 22, 2022, at 1:22 pm

Cybersquatting doesn’t have to be about profit, as Australians are finding out. According to the Australian publication, Western Australia Today, political games are being played alongside an upcoming referendum on introducing indigenous representation to the Australian parliament: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party is collecting web domains; some explicitly tied to its cause including NoToVoice.com, but […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Australia, Domains, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, cybersquatting, defensive domain registrations

Aussie Crazy Domains pissed off standards committee with edgy video ad

Posted by DomainGang on December 20, 2021, at 9:18 am

Australian domain registrar, Crazy Domains, is known for its edgy video ads but this time they’ve outdone themselves. Ad Standards of Australia has released the most complained about ads for 2021 in Australia, with over 4,500 complaints and more than 300 advertisements involved. The list, as far as the number of complaints go, was topped […]

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Chinese squatters get “Brisbane 2032” Olympics #domains

Posted by DomainGang on July 21, 2021, at 1:32 pm

Brisbane 2032 – it’s the home of the XXXV Olympiad. With the Tokyo Olympics ante portas, the announcement about Brisbane, Australia, was made today. Brisbane was first announced as the preferred bid on 24 February 2021, gaining the formal approval of the IOC Executive Board. Australia has hosted the Summer Olympic games twice before: in […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Australia, Brisbane, Brisbane 2032, Brisbane Olympics, Brisbane2032.com, Domainers, Domains, IOC, International Olympic Committee, Olympics domains, XXXV Olympiad

Aussie firm fails to upgrade brand to BiodiversityAustralia.com.au

Posted by DomainGang on April 15, 2021, at 12:09 pm

An Australian firm filed a UDRP against the domain BiodiversityAustralia.com.au. The Respondent is Biodiversity Solutions Australia Pty Ltd, a company incorporated in Australia. The Respondent was incorporated on May 5, 2015, under the name Zerorisk International Pty Ltd. On July 24, 2017, the Respondent changed its name to Biodiversity Solutions Australia Pty Ltd. Meanwhile, the […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Australia, BiodiversityAustralia.com.au, Domains, UDRP, WIPO

Australian rules change the .com.au #domain playing field

Posted by DomainGang on March 11, 2021, at 11:53 am

G’day mate, if you’re a fan of the land of Oz then good on ya. Just don’t go about registering .com.au domains without an Aussie presence as rules are changing. The Australian ruler on the dot .AU namespace, auDA, released new regulations on who can register .com.au and .net.au domains, along with trademark priority registrations. […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with .au domains, .com.au, Australia, Domainers, Domains

Crikey! Mike Robertson is moving back to #Australia

Posted by DomainGang on February 27, 2020, at 3:53 pm

Popular domain industry professional, Mike Robertson, is leaving America for the Land of the Oz. The Aussie domainer is heading back to Australia, the continent-sized country that spawned so many of our Crocodile Dundee moments. Said Mike: It’s time for me to follow the Yellow Brick Road and return to Oz. In August I’m moving […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Aussie domainers, Australia, DirectNIC, Mike Robertson