Australian higher education domains

Shows current posture and repeated public signal across selected university and higher education domains.

Curated scopeMembership lens30 and 90 days

Latest observations

What is visible now

10 domains in this sector-based lens.

Observed 10 Sep 2026.

Current observation

A public DMARC record was observed for 10 of 10 cohort domains; DNSSEC evidence was visible for 1 of 10.

In the latest 30 days, 30 material observations affected 4 cohort domains.

Current posture: 10 Sep 2026. 30-day window: 12 Aug 2026 to 10 Sep 2026.

10DMARC present
1DNSSEC visible
10MX present
3DNS providers observed
1registrars observed
Supporting posture detail
4email providers observed
10SPF present
10RDAP records available
10nameserver sets

Recent movement

These 30- and 90-day windows show material and supporting changes. Routine operational observations stay in the evidence but are not the headline.

30-day window

12 Aug 2026 to 10 Sep 2026

Material events
30
Supporting events
1
Affected domains
4
Repeated domains
4

30 material trust-posture observations and 1 supporting infrastructure observation were visible across this cohort during the selected 30-day window.

Routine observations kept separately: 7.

  • Name server movement: 23
  • Registration or RDAP signal: 6
  • Email provider movement: 1
  • Mail routing: 1

Continuous per-domain coverage cannot be established from the public manifest artefacts alone; counts use available generated event records.

90-day window

13 Jun 2026 to 10 Sep 2026

Material events
86
Supporting events
5
Affected domains
7
Repeated domains
7

86 material trust-posture observations and 5 supporting infrastructure observations were visible across this cohort during the selected 90-day window.

Routine observations kept separately: 11.

  • Name server movement: 67
  • Mail routing: 9
  • Registration or RDAP signal: 8
  • Email provider movement: 5
  • Other observed change: 2

Continuous per-domain coverage cannot be established from the public manifest artefacts alone; counts use available generated event records.

Current mail observation

Mail signals visible now

Observed 10 Sep 2026 across 10 cohort domains.

MX posture

10Public MX visible

Evidence and posture detail

10 determinate; 0 indeterminate.

  • Public MX visible10
  • Null MX0
  • No public MX observed0

SPF posture

ProtectedSome posture counts are withheld for privacy

Evidence and posture detail

10 determinate; 0 indeterminate.

  • SPF not observed0
  • Single SPF recordSuppressed
  • Multiple SPF records0
  • Malformed SPFSuppressed

DMARC posture

10Valid DMARC record

Evidence and posture detail

10 determinate; 0 indeterminate.

  • DMARC not observed0
  • Valid DMARC record10
  • Multiple DMARC records0
  • Malformed DMARC0

Visible infrastructure links

Mail service associations

Provider Resolution links visible MX routing and first-order SPF references to documented providers. It does not change Mail Posture.

Inbound mail routing

Documented providers linked from visible MX routing targets.

10of 10 target-bearing domains had at least one documented association.

Documented providers seen in 3+ cohort domains

  • Microsoft5 cohort domains
  • Mimecast3 cohort domains

2 lower-frequency provider names are withheld.

Provider counts can overlap and are not market share.

Evidence and coverage
10usable evidence
0insufficient evidence

Target presence

  • Target-bearing10
  • No target0

Documented association coverage

  • Documented association10
  • No documented association0

Unresolved targets

  • Unresolved targets visible0
  • No unresolved targets10

SPF service references

Documented providers linked from first-order SPF include and redirect targets.

Below thresholdCoverage is not published because fewer than 10 domains had targets.

Documented providers seen in 3+ cohort domains

  • Microsoft5 cohort domains

10 lower-frequency provider names are withheld.

Provider counts can overlap and are not market share.

Evidence and coverage
10usable evidence
0insufficient evidence

Target presence

  • Target-bearingSuppressed
  • No targetSuppressed

Documented association coverage

This detail is not published because the target-bearing group is too small.

Unresolved targets

This detail is not published because the target-bearing group is too small.

How to read this
Inbound routing and SPF service references describe different roles. Provider names are shown only when they recur across at least three cohort domains. Smaller provider counts and privacy-sensitive distributions remain withheld. These are infrastructure associations, not supplier contracts or market share.

Classification: provider-resolution-v1 · Provider Catalogue 1.5.0. The 30/90-day section below is existing cohort history; it does not track Mail Service Association change.

Provider context

Registrars

Education Services Australia Limited

10 observed domains

DNS providers

[unclassified]

8 observed domains

Akamai

1 observed domains

Cloudflare

1 observed domains

Email providers

Microsoft

5 observed domains

Mimecast

3 observed domains

Cisco

1 observed domains

Proofpoint

1 observed domains

Related evidence

Evidence references for observed movement are included in the 30- and 90-day windows above. Reports and State views provide the wider panel context.

About this cohort

Selected Australian higher education domains observed for aggregate public domain-layer signal context.

This is a descriptive cohort view. It does not rank or grade organisations.

Source manifest: data/report_manifests/2026-09-10.json

  • Observed cohorts are curated public presentation groups, not complete sector-wide coverage.
  • Cohort summaries describe public domain-layer signals only and do not create ordered assessments.
  • Public presentation cohorts may be mapped from collection cohorts, inventory sectors, or explicit overlapping membership.

Cohort membership

10 domains in this sector-based lens.

DomainCategoryPublic rationale
adelaide.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.
anu.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.
deakin.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.
rmit.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.
sydney.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.
unimelb.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.
unsw.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.
uq.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.
uts.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.
uwa.edu.auEducationIncluded as a selected Australian higher education domain in the fixed .auDO panel.