Read quarterly reviews, monthly briefs, rolling whole-panel evidence, dated daily records and featured analysis.
Quarterly Trust Signals Review
Quarterly review
Evidence: 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-30
Published 2026-10-16
What 100 selected .au domains revealed across July–September 2026: visible trust posture, infrastructure movement, recurring patterns and questions for accountable owners.
Latest monthly brief
October 2026
Published 2026-11-01
October's Monthly Observatory Brief examines repeated nameserver changes and related infrastructure signals across the fixed observation panel, alongside a dated view of DNSSEC and Mail trust posture.
Rolling whole-panel evidence
Recent posture history
Comparable whole-panel observations show recent movement or persistence without turning the series into a trend claim.
Retained activity history
Eligible activity dates are shown where State already has a governed activity-history view. Unmarked dates are not treated as proved zero activity.
Retained activity
10 Oct–8 Nov
68 eligible observations across 6 panel domains; 6 domains recorded eligible activity on more than one date.
Bar height shows affected domains on retained eligible activity dates. Unmarked dates are not treated as proved zero activity.
Retained activity
10 Oct–8 Nov
20 eligible observations across 12 panel domains; 5 domains recorded eligible activity on more than one date.
Bar height shows affected domains on retained eligible activity dates. Unmarked dates are not treated as proved zero activity.
Rolling windows
30- and 90-day windows report observed event activity where interpretation is available. Dates describe loaded source evidence, not guaranteed per-signal completeness or comparability. A missing day is never treated as zero activity.
Dated rolling summaries produced before Public Methodology v1.2 may not represent consecutive calendar dates. Older source-date coverage cannot always be independently reconstructed. Read the historical method limitation.
30 of 30 requested calendar dates have loaded sources (2026-10-10 to 2026-11-08). Complete source-date coverage; individual signals may still have gaps.
Current population: 100 domains. Longitudinal-eligible: 100. Common observed population: 100. No population boundary is present in this requested window.
90 of 90 requested calendar dates have loaded sources (2026-08-11 to 2026-11-08). Complete source-date coverage; individual signals may still have gaps.
Current population: 100 domains. Longitudinal-eligible: 100. Common observed population: 100. No population boundary is present in this requested window.
Derived from observed events only; raw evidence and ingestion are unchanged.
Counts and repeated observations are candidate patterns, not incident assertions.
Latest daily report
Total: 27T1: 1T2: 2T3: 24
Total: 32T1: 1T2: 2T3: 29
Total: 29T1: 1T2: 0T3: 28
Total: 35T1: 4T2: 2T3: 29
Total: 30T1: 1T2: 0T3: 29
Total: 25T1: 1T2: 0T3: 24
Total: 29T1: 3T2: 2T3: 24
Total: 30T1: 5T2: 2T3: 23
Latest featured analysis
Published 2026-09-02
Across 25 consecutive Mail Posture observations, broad SPF and DMARC publication persisted while the more useful distinctions sat inside derived posture and evidence quality.
Using the evidence
Recurring briefs and reviews synthesise completed reporting periods. Longitudinal windows show rolling whole-panel evidence. Daily reports preserve dated records. Featured analysis examines selected themes.
The fixed Observation Panel defines what is repeatedly observed. State describes current aggregate posture; Signals and Methodology explain evidence meaning and limits.
The Research Agenda defines the standing questions against which evidence accumulates. Periodic and featured analysis may address one or more of those questions when the evidence is mature enough.
