{"id":506,"date":"2014-07-31T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.domaincrunch.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2014-07-31T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:30:19","slug":"australian-government-lets-training-com-au-expire-sells-for-30110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/australian-government-lets-training-com-au-expire-sells-for-30110\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Government lets training.com.au expire sells for $30,110"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITWire.com out with the story of Training.com.au being dropped by the Australian government and being auctioned off. The name sold at auction for $30,110<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">The Australian government has made what seems to be a colossal stuff-up with private investors picking up a prized Internet domain name after it expired today.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The domain name training.com.au was, until today, registered to The Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/deewr.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department website<\/a>\u00a0says \u201cOn 18 September 2013 the Department of Education and the Department of Employment was created out of the former Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The department&#8217;s ownership of training.com.au expired today at 1pm and went to auction with the winning bid of AU$30,110.<\/p>\n<p>The winning bidder was Now Hiring Pty Ltd, which operates a jobs website and is also a joint venture partner with\u00a0<em>iTWire\u00a0<\/em>in <a href=\"http:\/\/jobswiregurus.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">jobswiregurus.com.au<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwire.com\/government-tech-news\/govenrment-tech-policy\/64954-australian-government-lets-trainingcomau-expire-in-huge-blunder\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITWire.com out with the story of Training.com.au being dropped by the Australian government and being auctioned off. The name sold at auction for $30,110 From the article: The Australian government has made what seems to be a colossal stuff-up with private investors picking up a prized Internet domain name after it expired today. The domain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nysck.com\/nysck-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}