Domain Registration Related News
Rogue domain registrar to challenge regulator
again
October 2004
A Canberra-based domain registrar with a trail
of angry customers will take the domain regulator
back to court in November to contest the extent of
its powers.
Capital Networks, holding company of registrar
TotalNIC, will appeal a June decision that upheld
the Australian Domain Administration's (auDA)
right to request documents on TotalNIC's generic
top level domain (gTLD) operations.
AuDA requested the documents after receiving
complaints from TotalNIC customers around the
world that gTLD domains could not be transferred
from the registrar, and were "locked in".
AuDA has authority only over the .au domain space.
However, the regulator asked TotalNIC for gTLD
business documents as it believed those operations
were bringing its .au accreditation into
disrepute.
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