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Australia's rugby union team has lost another clash, this time over its domain name, with a tribunal striking down the organisation's claim to wallabies.com.au.

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Oxfam issued tap-and-pay cards loaded with $50 worth of DAI to 200 Vanuatu citizens to use via Sempo's payment platform, following six weeks of direct ...

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The automatic right of .co.uk domain name holders to register the shorter .uk domains ends in June.

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A new pro-Brexit political party has had its domain name claimed by a pro-Remain group.

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The administrator of Australia's top level .au domain, auDA, has been told to reform or be forcibly stripped of its role. That edict was delivered yesterday by ...

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The Federal Court of Australia has ordered two domain name registration companies to pay a combined $1.95 million for attempting to dupe Australian cust...

ErisX has received a DCO license from the U.S. CFTC, supplementing its DCM license and allowing for the regulated trading of crypto futures.

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Former auDA executive director Josh Rowe has been forced to apologise to staff and management of the Australian internet domain authority over allegations of ...

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Domain name owners say the owners of Australia's more than three million domain names are being ripped off by the organisation governing domain names.

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A trio of researchers say they've discovered a way to detect and punish dishonest blockchain participants, according to a paper published at the end of May.

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The latest scam email to do the rounds among Irish businesses involves attempts to lure them to buy similar domains from 'DNS Ireland'.

Craig Wright said that he cannot comply with a court order to provide a list of all his early bitcoin addresses.

By Derek Whitehead, Swinburne University of Technology. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Australian domain names – websites ending in .au.

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A group of domain name companies who scammed Australian small business owners out of a collective $2.3 million have been penalised by the Australian ...

Sydney is lagging behind other world cities in its regulation of Airbnb-style holiday lets, putting lives at risk, claims a growing chorus of industry experts.

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