> >You are talking about BUSINESS NAME registration, which has been around for
> >decades and is, as you say, state-based. An ARBN is not the same thing.
> 
> And ARBN is the number assigned by the State of Recognision to a Business
> Name.

As the original person (whoever it was) said, an ARBN is not the same thing
as an RBN (Registered Business Name).

An ARBN, which stands for "Australian Registered Body Number" is basically
the equivalet of an ACN for a non-Australian company. They are federally
controlled (like ACN's), not state controlled (like RBN's)

Full details are available from the ASCs website.

> Where use for a domain name is concerned, it would be totally illegal to
> register a business name to secure a domain name, unless you trade under
> the business name.  The Act requires that you intend to trade to make
> profit from the Business Name.

As the domain would be based on the Business Name, surely using the
domain could/would be considered trading under that name. Of course
there would be exceptions to this, but...

  Scott.