Does your domain name end with a "com.au" or
"net.au" or "org.au" and "asn.au" and
you are a foreign entity that uses an Australian Trade Mark to
support that domain registration? If so, you may not be able to
renew or apply for a domain if it doesn't exactly match a trade
mark you own.
These new rules will apply from12 April 2021.
Yes – that's less than two months from now.
If you are a foreign entity and your trade mark is a word and
that same word is the domain name to which ".com.au" or
any of the other top-level domains is added, then all is OK.
However, if the trade mark is not the same, you should check the
rules below. If the trade mark and the domain name are the
same, you do not need to do anything at this time.
