Australian ccTLD overseer auDA has appointed industry veteran Bruce Tonkin to CEO. It’s an internal promotion; Tonkin has been chief operating officer at auDA since 2018. He’s replacing Rosemary Sinclair, who intends to leave at the end of the year. Tonkin was formerly chief strategy officer of Melbourne IT, one of the very first batch […]
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auDA promotes from within to replace outgoing CEO. auDA, the organization responsible for Australia’s .au country code top level domain, has named Bruce Tonkin its next CEO. Tonkin will take over the role in January. He has been with auDA since 2017 and has been its chief operating officer since 2018. His history in domains […]
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auDA is to raise the wholesale price of .au domains later this year in response to inflation. The registry said that the price will go up from AUD 7.78 to AUD 8.45 ($5.60 USD), not including sales tax, on October 1 due to “inflation-based cost pressures”. auDA said the prices mean .au domains will continue […]
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The number of domains registered to Germany-based dot-brand registries crossed the 10,000 mark in the last few weeks, thanks to a handful of enthusiastic registrants.
That’s almost half of all the domains currently showing up in dot-brand zone files, which stands at just over 21,000, according to my database.
German companies have been the most-prolific users of dot-brands, with the financial services company Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG) currently accounting for over 7,500 domains.
As well as having several corporate web sites on .dvag domains, DVAG gives out firstname-lastname.dvag domains to its network of financial advisors, with each domain redirecting to a personalized, template-driven digital business card on dvag.de.
Car-maker Audi, part of Volkswagen, is the second-biggest user, with over 1,700 current .audi domains connecting its network of dealerships and many domains for individual car brands. Its dealers also get template-driven brochureware web sites, but there’s no redirect to a different TLD.
Fellow car-maker BMW and retailer Schwarz Gruppe, owner of the Lidl supermarket chain, are among the other dot-brands with hundreds of domains to their name.
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