Prime minister Scott Morrison's personal website, scottmorrison.com.au, has been taken over and replaced with a photo of the PM and a punk song.
According to the ownership data for the site, it was bought on Thursday by Jack Genesin who, according to his Facebook profile, works in digital marketing.
What the website looked like on Friday morning vs. what it normally looks like.
It appears that the ownership lapsed in the past few days. Web archives reveal the former website was up on Monday. The way it works is that Genesin was able to go in and buy the ownership of the URL once it expired and then direct that URL to his own website — in this case, a website playing the song "Scotty Doesn't Know" by Lustra.
Genesin posted on Facebook that buying the site was the "most fun" he'd had with $50 in a long time.
In Australia domain name ownership is managed by the Australian domain name administrator auDA. Unlike other domains, like .com, where people can buy the domains they like and squat, auDA has stricter rules on who can own .au domains and in what circumstances they can be bought.
AuDA can revoke a domain name licence in cases where someone has acted "in bad faith" to obtain the domain, so it's quite likely the PM will be able to reclaim his website very quickly.