No one is asking for any preferential treatment here.
You will notice from my original message that the domain name asked for is
"churchofchrist.org.au" and not "churchesofchrist.org.au" as stated in the 
message.
We know better than to try and register a domain already in use.
Also the domain name would not have been accepted to be approved should
the name be already in use???

regards
David




At 11:19 PM 02/06/2000 , you wrote:
>Sorry for the delayed reply (I've been on holidays).
>
>churchesofchrist.org.au has already been registered ...
>
>     Object-Type: DOMAIN
>     Organization-Name: Churches of Christ
>     Organization-ACN: n/a
>     Reg-Bus-Name:
>     Reg-Bus-Number:
>     Organization-Postal: 77 Capel Street
>     Organization-Postal: West Melbourne
>     Organization-Postal: VIC 3003
>     Organization-Country-Code: AU
>     Domain-Name: churchesofchrist.org.au
>     Admin-Contact: (NP87-AU)
>     Tech-Contact: (JR20-AU)
>     Handle: CHURCHESOFCHRIST-ORG-AU-DOM
>     Created: 13-Feb-98
>     Updated: 20-Nov-1999
>
>Speak to Nigel (NP87-AU) if you have any questions about the use of this
>domain name.
>
>Cheers
>
>
>Josh
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Keegel [mailto:djk§cyber.com.au]
> > Sent: Sunday, 26 December 1999 22:05
> > To: dns§waia.asn.au
> > Subject: Re: [DNS] AN domain
> >
> >
> > ] We have had a registration/delegation in since 4th Nov 1998 for
> > ] "churchofchrist.org.au"
> > ] and cannot get any response from anyone re this.  Surely it
> > should not take
> > ] this long
> > ] any help/info/suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > A possible source of difficulty is that you haven't given much
> > information about the legal nature of the organisation which is
> > applying for the domain name.  For example, is it Australia-wide,
> > State-wide, or in a particular city/suburb?
> >
> > Who is a responsible person for the organisation who has authorised
> > it (probably a Bishop or something like that)?  Are there other
> > Churches of Christ apart from the one applying for this domain?
> > If so, what happens to them when they want to get online?
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________
> > ____________
> >  David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au>  URL:
>http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
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