Hello Andrew,

The Competition Panel report does discuss responsibilities of registries and
registrars.

There is no registrar of ".asn.au" presently under the new definitions in
that report.

At the moment ".asn.au" is an integrated registry/registrar, with no other
retailers.
It is presently a free service.

Under the model described in the competition panel report, the operation of
the ".asn.au" registry will be put out to tender (to which a respondent
could respond individually or respond to provide ".asn.au" in combination
with other second level domains).  A registry provided under this model will
need to provide a WHOIS service.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin
Chief Technology Officer
Melbourne IT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Best [mailto:andrew_best§pacific.net.au]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 5:10 PM
> To: dns§auda.org.au
> Subject: [DNS] Registrars in .au
> 
> 
> Afternoon all.
> 
> Im hoping this is the correct forum to ask this question.
> Does AuDA stipulate what the responsibilites of a registrar 
> in .au are?
> 
> For example, there is no whois database for any .asn.au domain.
> Does AuDA require that any party acting as a registrar 
> maintain a whois
> database of the domains they register?
> 
> Found out that whois doesnt know who/where to query for .asn.au while
> building a tool to tell me which registrars we/our customers 
> have domains
> registred with.
> 
> cheers
> Andrew
> 
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> Andrew Best                              -              
> Systems Engineer 
> Pacific Internet (Australia) Pty Ltd     -     
http://www.pacific.net.au
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