Use a free $50 Google AdWords credit to learn how easy it is to find new customers.

With AdWords you write your own ads, choosing keywords to help Google match your ads to your audience. You also get to decide where your ads appear, and you can define your own target area. Your ads show up on Google almost instantly, and you only pay when people click on your ad. In other words, you only pay when your advertising works. And, thanks to the $50 ad credit that Ilisys is pleased to offer through a special arrangement with Google, it won’t cost you a penny to get started.

When you’re ready to get started, the friendly AdWords professionals on our staff will get in touch with you to help you set up your campaign.

As the average Ilisys website has grown, so has its traffic.

To reflect this growth, the base monthly transfer allowance has been increased to 10 GB. Transfer allowances of 25, 50, 75 or 100 GB are also available.

These allowance upgrades have been applied to all current hosting packages and have been made possible by the close relationships we maintain with Optus, our primary tier-1 bandwidth provider.

Each month, Ilisys customers put more content online and use more data storage.

To allow for this continued growth, Ilisys data storage allowances have been increased, effective today. The base data storage allowance was increased to 500 MB, while data storage allowances may now be upgraded to any multiple of 1 GB.

Data storage allowances continue to cover all data except that required for logs or Urchin reports.

All Linux hosted data continues to be backed up hourly and may be SnapRestored using your Toolkit or by contacting Technical Support.

Domain Name Pty Ltd is a new company started up by the directors of Domain Names Australia Pty Ltd and Domains Australia Pty Ltd.

auDA successfully won our court case against DNA, please see all information regarding DNA at http://www.auda.org.au/news/dna.

We are aware of these new mail outs circulating and suggest the following courses of action, if a client has paid any of the above companies either by cheque or credit card please have them contact the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) and lodge a formal complaint in relation to breaches of the trade practices act (and fraud), http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/3634.

Credit card transactions can be disputed with their provider and I suggest contacting the provider immediately. Cheques are not instantly cashed by any of the above companies so clients may wish to contact their financial institution and cancel the cheque if possible.

Also please send an email to make a formal complaint to the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection in WA, consumer@docep.wa.gov.au (ph 1300 30 40 54). A representative at this office is investigating these companies and their directors.

auDA always recommends using an accredited registrar (http://www.auda.org.au/registrars/accredited-registrars/) to facilitate registrations of .au domain names. If you receive notification about your domain name and are unsure of its authenticity please contact your registrar of record or auDA for further information.

Adam King
Administrative Officer
.au Domain Administration

This afternoon, we launched a dedicated Linux FTP cluster.

These new machines will handle FTP transactions for all Linux-hosted websites. Creating a dedicated cluster for this service will increase the performance capacity of both the HTTP and FTP services and allow us to scale the HTTP cluster more efficiently.