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Above’s RSOC Solution to the AFD Crisis
Above’s RSOC Solution to the AFD Crisis
Having just returned from Domain Days Dubai, it was clear there was a buzz of genuine concern in the air. Everybody’s…
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisauDA Hits Back - Tries To Justify and Down Play The Accepted Policy Changes After The Australian news published an article on the proposed policy changes: https://lnkd.in/gKyQ-G6b Petition started/supported by the Registrars has over 1,000 signatures requesting auDA to not make this change here: https://lnkd.in/gvF9RW5D In response auDA released their own statement: https://lnkd.in/gBxqfvCa "we expect most registrants will already satisfy the proposed allocation" Trying to downplay the impact here, when the data is clear: 80% of existing registrants will be affected only 20% will not need to do anything. You can check where your domains falls here: https://lnkd.in/gChPuK25 2.7 million domains will need to do ONE of these things to meet the new policy: 1. If they have an existing Business Name that passes the other rules, will just need to contact their Registrar and perform a Change of Registrant OR 2. If they do NOT have an existing Business Name that matches one of the other eligibility requirements, they will need to go to ASIC and register a new Business Name and THEN contact their Registrar and perform a Change of Registrant. Examples of each case: 1. girl.com.au - Registered 25 Years Ago Current Eligibility is under: Trillion.com Pty Ltd parent company which happens to have a Business Name "GIRL.COM.AU" the domain owner will need to reach out to their Registrar and pay for a Correction/Change of Registrant to maintain eligibility. 2. gold.com.au - Registered 29 Years Ago Will need to go to ASIC to pay $47 per year for a new Business Name with the word "GOLD" in it to be eligible and then contact their Registrar and pay to do a Change of Registrant. auDA claims that a Correction is free, so that there will not be a cost to clients, technically that is true but what they don't tell you is that in reality, Registrars will not do free corrections and for good reason and instead will use the paid for Change of Registrant pathway to make these changes. Corrections are for mistakes and done rarely by Registrars as they require a Tech that has high level access and database access to perform changes in the database. Instead Registrars will use the common fee based Change of Registrant pathway to make these changes to the domains. A Change of Registrant costs the Registrar $9.50 The break up of this is around $6.00 goes to auDA $3.50 goes to the Registry - Identity Digital Registrars then charge a margin anywhere from $1.00 to $60.00 auDA stands to make a nice $16.2 million windfall from this policy change 2.7 Million domains x $6. A nice return for a policy change. We urge auDA to keep section (f) of the policy. No confusing grandfather options either.
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisLooking forward to Namescon and Cloudfest to catch up with everyone! If you have domains that you are selling, monetizing, or developing, we have solutions for all types of domains, so contact any of our team to know more. Registrar - Cost Price - No Margin Marketplace - 3% Sales Commissions Monetization - The most diverse solution around. Brokerage - Brokers that actually call people and not just send emails. above.com #namescon, #cloudfest, #domains, #registrar, #aftermarketDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisNamesCon might be two months away…but time is travelling fast! This year's event, 'Defining Identity in the Next Internet', takes place November 11-12, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Check out our fabulous team from Above, including David Warmuz, Michael Feeley, James Tuplin, Liz Corona, Jodi Chamberlain, Nathan Parker, Kyriako I., Jeremiah Selander, Marc Mojica, Maria Kovalenko, and Simon Saleem, who are all excited to attend! Please DM directly to connect and organise a catch-up. #NamesCon #DomainNames #Domains
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisThe auDA Board Just Voted to Destroy the .com.au Name Space! Over 2 million .com.au are no longer eligible to be renewed! Let that sink in! There are only 3.29 million .com.au domains currently registered and over 2 million of them will require a new Business Name Registration or a new Trademark registration and then Change of Registrant done. We estimate that this is going to cost Small Business owners $500 million to fix and a good $200 million every year to maintain. This is a great win for the Australian Government through ASIC and IP Australia services, but all at the cost of Small Businesses. What were they thinking? Making a single change to existing Eligibility rules that will affect 1/3 domains currently registered. Read more https://lnkd.in/g4C3Gnrf #auda, #domains, #asic, #ipaustralia, #drop, #domainnames
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisAffiliate World Budapest was high-energy, lots of memorable meetings and all set in an amazing location. Spending quality time with my team Maria Kovalenko and Simon Saleem makes the long days feel more like fun than work! #traffic, #affiliate, #offersDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisThe Team are back from Budapest and still on a high from a fantastic event. Here's what David Warmuz had to say, "AWE was high-energy, with memorable meetings and an amazing location. Spending quality time with my team, Maria Kovalenko and Simon Saleem and having potential clients waiting to greet you at your booth in the morning, were also major highlights!" #AWE2026 #AWBudapest #AffiliateWorldEurope #AffiliateMarketing Affiliate World Conferences
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisHelp Shape the Future of .AU Domains For every Australian business owner and domain investor, the Australian Domain Administration (auDA) is reviewing the .au Licensing Rules, and the proposed changes could have a real impact on business owners that own more than one domain, domain investors, portfolio owners, and SEO companies that register domains. Current .au eligibility policies are often misunderstood, creating unnecessary public confusion around legitimate domain investing. Some think that if a domain name is acquired by an investor and is not currently in use, it constitutes an unfair holding and should be made exclusively available to an operational business in that industry. Some of the suggestions provided by the panel will severely affect anyone who owns multiple domain names. Some of the points raised were covered by Domainer https://lnkd.in/gcJnYjh5 Australia already has the world's most restrictive domain namespace, and if some of the panel's suggestions are adopted, it would become even more restrictive severely reducing the value of .com.au domains and encourge businesses to use other extensions like .com .ai .io .co etc.. Please have your say before it is too late for Australian domain investors! 👉 Submit your feedback here: https://lnkd.in/g53Svv9u Submission and consultation close on 10 July 2026, 11:59 PM AEST.
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisThank you Bruce! What an absolute legend in the SEO space. Bruce Clay recently passed away leaving behind many thankful people that had their own SEO skills shaped in the early days by Bruce. He was always happy to talk SEO and impart as much of his knowledge as he could to anyone that was willing to listen and learn. We first met at the Double Tree for SES Conference in 1999, I need to go through "thefacebook" to confirm but that sounds about right. One of the best event ever. In a location where no one could leave, so we all just stayed and drank the hotel bar out, and that was the catalyst to how a lifelone friendship started. Here is bruceclay.com wayback from Jan 1998 https://lnkd.in/gmiGU9Uy In contrast our Jan 1998 wayback of our site at the same time: https://lnkd.in/gXYdrUrW (we later rebranded to Trellian.com at the end of 1998 and then much later to Trillion.com) At the time our top product was SubmitWolf along with a suite of search products... while we were only adding websites to search engines, Bruce was already providing help and advice on how to improve your website, before it was even called SEO (Search Engine Optimization). A true pioneer that I am glad to have met and call a friend. We shared many drinks and talks over the years and I wish there were more of both! Rest In Peace Bruce. You will be missed. The Bruceclay team posed this in his memory: https://lnkd.in/gFpur7Up
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisExcited to be going again the Affiliate World Budapest after missing last year. If you are going and will be there as well, happy to connect. #Trillion, #AWBudapest, #AWEurope, #TrafficDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisNext stop: Affiliate World Europe, Budapest! The Trillion team of David Warmuz, Maria Kovalenko, and Simon Saleem is heading to AWE 2026 and we're looking forward to connecting with the best in the business. Come find us if you are: ✅ An advertiser looking for high quality, high-intent traffic ✅ A publisher ready to scale ✅ A brand, agency or network exploring new channels ✅ Anyone wanting to connect, collaborate and talk all things digital 📅 July 9-10, 2026 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary 📍Booth C43 Send us a message ahead of the show or come say hi at the booth. See you there! #AWE2026 #AWBudapest #AffiliateWorldEurope #AffiliateMarketing Affiliate World Conferences
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisIf anyone knows someone that is great for this role VP of Sales, please do let them know.David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisTrillion is hiring a VP of Sales to own and grow brand advertiser and agency revenue across Trillion's network of high-intent digital media properties. If you have 8+ years of programmatic and/or search sales experience with a strong track record in agency and/or brand direct sales, we'd love to hear from you: https://lnkd.in/gU-85QNg #NowHiring #AdTech #VPSales #PerformanceMarketing #DigitalAdvertising
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisA big thanks to Jeremiah Johnston for the many years of donating his time and effort to the betterment of all domain investors. Thank you!David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon shared thisAfter more than two decades of service to the domain industry, I want to thank Jeremiah Johnston for his solid contribution to the global domain investment community. Through his leadership with the Internet Commerce Association, his work at Sedo, and his involvement with ICANN compliance, Jeremiah has been a strong and consistent advocate for domain owners, investors, and digital property rights worldwide. The domain industry has faced many challenges over the years, but leaders like Jeremiah helped ensure our community had a respected voice at the table representing domainer interests. His ability to bridge business, policy, and innovation has had a lasting impact on the future of domains and internet governance. On behalf of everyone at Above.com, thanks again, Jeremiah, for your industry dedication, professionalism, and leadership. Wishing you all the best for the next chapter and the exciting opportunities ahead in AI, technology, and beyond. David Warmuz, CEO, Above.com
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auDA - .au Domain Administration Ltd. Since the Panel was hired/appointed by auDA, yes technically external, but were they really independent?
4 of the 7 Panelists ignored all the multi-stakeholder feedback, since EVERY au Accredited Registrars are against this change and the bulk of feedback submitted was against this.
Even they could not agree and provided a split 4 out of 7 recommendation to the auDA Board. The auDA Board still voted to adopt the contested recommendation. There is no justification for auDA to proceed with any adoption plan, there is no need for any further public consultation to discuss how to implement, the only discussion should be how to pause any implementation.
This is from a very concerned group of au Accredited Registrars.
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisAnguilla was the future. Now everyone’s scrambling for Slovenia 🇸🇮 Great for domain investors. But how many trends are brands going to chase? Meanwhile, .COM never went anywhere. #Domains #DomainNames #DomainInvesting #dotCom #Ai #Si #Sartups
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisAre you going to Europe’s festival for partnership marketing? Our own Mark Abraham will be attending PI LIVE Europe from 19-21 October 2026! With everyone in the industry from brands, retailers, publishers, creators, agencies and technology in the one space, it’s an ideal opportunity to network, participate and learn more about how to enhance and propel your success. #PILIVE #PILIVE26 #AffiliateMarketing PI LIVE Europe - Festival of Partnerships
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisFor decades, .com.au has been Australia’s established commercial domain extension. But since .au registrations launched in 2022, businesses and domain investors have had another option. One has built long-standing consumer trust; the other is a shorter, cleaner alternative. So, which one is better? The answer depends on your audience, branding, and keeping track of proposed eligibility changes. Read more in our latest blog. Link in comments. #australiandomains #abovedotcom #audapolicies
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisThe ICA recently wrapped up our Board elections, seeing great participation by our members. Each of our candidates received overwhelming support from our membership and we're happy to announce that Nikul Sanghvi has been elected to the ICA Board, while Tessa Holcomb, Braden Pollock, and Jay Chapman have all been re-elected. Please join us in welcoming Nikul and congratulating our returning directors. You can read more about each of these directors here: https://lnkd.in/gpgZfhjc If you have ideas or feedback for the board, our door is always open; let us know!
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked this𝗜 𝗖𝗔𝗡’𝗧 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 “𝗪𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦” 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗜 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢. And it’s got me thinking… How often do you hear about a “Men in Business” event? I don’t (but maybe I don’t because I am female 😅) Yet we’ve got women’s networking events. Women’s lunches. Women’s panels. Women’s founder groups. Women supporting women events. Maybe we’re getting some of this wrong? Because if the goal is inclusion, why do we keep creating more separate rooms? I don’t want to only network with women. i want to be where business is happening. i want to meet the men AND the women. I want to be invited to the golf day. The corporate box. The random lunch where someone says, “You two should talk.” That’s where relationships are built. And maybe the more we separate ourselves into “women in business” over here and everyone else over there… the more we reinforce the exact divide we keep complaining about. I’m absolutely here for supporting women. But I’m starting to wonder if real inclusion looks a lot less like creating another women-only event… and a lot more like simply being included. Are we actually closing the gap… or accidentally keeping it alive?
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisAs a member of the ICANN and internet governance community, auDA is delighted to support ICANN90 as the local host. ICANN90 will take place on 30 October to 4 November 2027 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. We look forward to welcoming the ICANN community to Australia for the first time since ICANN35 in 2009, and are keen to progress critical multi-stakeholder discussions. Learn more on the ICANN website: https://lnkd.in/gKqyP3d3
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David Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisDavid Warmuz 🔜 SiGMA-NamesCon liked thisAnyone who works in digital or owns a .com.au or .net.au domain: SIGN THIS PETITION. https://c.org/bB7Dzs8kgF An excerpt (CoPilot summary) as to why: What auDA's proposed .au rule changes could mean for small businesses · auDA has accepted recommendations that change eligibility rules for .com.au and .net.au domains. · The proposed change would require a registered Business Name or Trade Mark that exactly matches the domain name. · Previously, an active ABN or ACN could be sufficient for eligibility. · Critics claim this could affect around 2.7 million domains (about 80% of all .com.au and .net.au registrations). Many existing domain holders may need to: · Register a new Business Name or Trade Mark. · Update domain ownership records with their registrar. · The proposal is expected to increase costs for businesses registering or renewing domains. · Concerns have been raised that some businesses could unintentionally become ineligible to renew their domains if they do not meet the new requirements. · Registrars could face significant administrative workloads processing large numbers of ownership and eligibility updates. Industry opponents argue the change could create confusion, increase compliance costs, and risk disruption for Australian businesses that rely on their domains. ➡️ Courtesy of Gumbo Web Advice ⬅️
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