Australia’s second level domain name system for government may have an air of legitimacy, but bureaucratic bungling is confusing Web administration between levels of government, according to one German researcher.Speaking at a seminar held by the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales yesterday, e-government researcher Martin Backes of Germany’s Saarland University said that Australia’s second level domain name system for government Web sites — .gov.au — is effective as a measure to instil user trust in dealing with the government over the Internet.
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Brett Fenton, chief operating officer of domain name registering service NetRegistry, said opportunities remain to hijack government domains: “There’s been some cases where someone will register a third level domain name attached to a .gov.au space and use it to direct traffic to all kinds of things.”
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