Who is Perry Wood?

We’ve been watching this mysterious “Perry Wood” person from “AUSTRALIAN LEGAL PARTNERSHIP PTY LTD” buying

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auDA plan to move the goal posts for Direct .au ‘Contested Names’

auDA have been sending out emails to every Australian domain name holder who has a

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Domain Tasting Finally Banned

Back in July 2024, we wrote the first article exposing that Drop.com.au was allowing a

IMPORTANT NEWS FLASH: NO DOMAIN TASTING

NEWS FLASH: we have just been informed IDENTITY DIGITAL (au Domain Registry) have implemented a

SEO Web Recovery registered 97% of every expired domain name for the last half of 2024.

Last week we wrote how auDA (.au Domain Administration) ruined the trust and security of

This is how auDA ruined the trust and security of Australian domain names from 2020-2024.

Rosemary Sinclair was the CEO of auDA from March 2020 until December 2024. Back in

auDA have allowed thousands of domain holders’ personal details to be harvested through their WHOIS.

auDA (.au Domain Administation) have allowed thousands of domain holders' personal information to be harvested

New auDA CEO: Bruce Tonkin

auDA have released a statement saying Bruce Tonkin will be auDA’s new CEO. The auDA

auDA External Review FAIL: Superannuation.com.au

Back in June I wrote how Drop.com.au deleted my winning bid of $325,000 for the

Who responds when “SEO Web Recovery” buys your domain name and you want it back?

After our Linked In post last month about… “SEO Web Recovery” registered 1238 domain names

Domain Tasting is only allowed by one Registrar in Australia (possibly the world?)

Domain Tasting is currently ruining the Australian .au domain name system (according to ICAAN concerns

Drop.com.au declare “Domain Tasting” is allowed, against what the rest of the domain world is doing.

Back in February 2024, a concerned customer of Drop.com.au wrote on an old Domaining Forum,

Drop.com.au allowed SEO Web Recovery to register 1238 domains, then deleted 1223 of them within auDA’s “cooling off” period.

As we posted last week, on Thursday 11 July 2024, “SEO Web Recovery” registered 1238 expired domain names in a

SEO Web Recovery registered 1238 domain names in one single day.

Yesterday, Thursday 11 July 2024, SEO Web Recovery registered 1238 expired domain names in a

auDA Internal Review FAIL – auDA dig an even deeper hole for themselves.

auDA have replied that their Internal Reviewer agrees with their initial complaint dismissal (as we

auDA invented a Licensing Rule sentence out of “thin air” to dismiss Superannuation.com.au complaint.

Yesterday I wrote the article “auDA ignores market manipulation and their own policy over Superannuation.com.au

auDA ignores market manipulation and their own policy over Superannuation.com.au dispute.

Just over a week ago, I reported that auDA began an investigation into my complaint of

Don’t give your domain name away to scammers

auDA have released a “scam” alert warning domain owners not to click on a scam

Synergy Wholesale (auDA Registrar) is DOWN and no one can register or renew domain names.

Synergy Wholesale, one of Australia’s largest auDA Registrars is DOWN. This is currently displayed on

auDA are investigating: Superannuation.com.au

Today I received confirmation that auDA are officially investigating my open public complaint in regards

auDA Complaint: Superannuation.com.au

I am making this complaint to auDA today against all of the Registrars Trillion (formally

Identity Digital release changes that affect drop catching.

Over the last few days, I’ve spoken with some living legends in the domain name

auDA CEO Rosemary Sinclair to step down.

Today, auDA announced auDA CEO Rosemary Sinclair will step down. She has been CEO for

auDA’s “Direct .au” is showing signs of phishing and scams.

Since auDA released “Direct .au” domain names back in March 2022, there was an initial

What happened to Architect.com.au and FinancialPlanners.com.au ?

On Saturday March 2, two premium domain names were officially set to “Pending Purge” at

The Drop Catching Monopoly continues in 2024.

Since November 2020, when Trellian (who own Drop.com.au) acquired “Netfleet.com.au”, they have had an uncontested

auDA are making changes to the .au Licensing Rules.

auDA (au Domain Administration) are making a bunch of changes to the Australian domain name

auDA (au Domain Administration) denied being hacked on Friday, but now admit to being hacked? (Updated 6pm AEST)

On Friday 18th August, 2023, auDA denied they had been hacked and said "We have

DropHero.com.au cancels domain drop catching service due to auDA’s monopolistic stance.

Today DropHero.com.au has closed it's doors on offering an Australian Domain Name Drop Catching service.

How to register .au Direct domain names on October 4?

New .au Direct domain names are going live for registration on 4 October 2022 at