At 4:59 +1000 23/6/98, Jeff Williams wrote:

>  After doing some looking around there seems to be some nepotism in the .AU
>ccTLD space.

I can see this is going to be good already :)


>To wit:
>
>Whois Query Results
>
>
>Registrant:
>Telstra Corporation Limited TELSTRA-DOM
>   C&G, Traeger Ct
>   Fern Hill Technology Park
>   Bruce
>   ACT, 2617
>   AU
>
>   Domain Name: TELSTRA.NET
>
>   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
>      Huston, Geoff  GH105  gih§TELSTRA.NET
>      +61 2 6208 1908 (FAX) +61 6 248 6165 (FAX) +61 2 6248 6165
>   Billing Contact:
>      Huston, Geoff  GH105  gih§TELSTRA.NET
>      +61 2 6208 1908 (FAX) +61 6 248 6165 (FAX) +61 2 6248 6165
>
>   Record last updated on 01-Oct-97.
>   Record created on 01-Jun-95.
>   Database last updated on 22-Jun-98 03:52:44 EDT.
>
>   Domain servers in listed order:
>
>   NS.TELSTRA.NET               203.50.0.137
>   TECKLA.APNIC.NET             202.12.28.129
>   NS1.TELSTRA.NET              139.130.4.5
>
>We found this rather interesting in that Telstra does not seem to be
>headquartered
>in Australia or their DNS service isn't at any rate (Draw your own conclusions).

I don't see anything in the above to support either of your allegations.

Perhaps you'd like to elucidate?


>We are not supprised however.  In Geoff Huston has played these little bait and
>switch games in the US as well with far less success I might add.  Hence his
>move to Australia I imagine (Again, Draw your own conclusions).
>
>  Geoff, we are watching you VERY closely, so you can run, but you can't hide!

I can't imagine why Geoff would have any desire to hide (except perhaps to
avoid such accusations as we see above).

Once again, perhaps you'd like to explain just what you mean?

Yours sincerely,
Richard Archer.