> I wonder if what they are doing is legal

> It is a question you would probably have to ask to the CEO of auDA

No.  Its a question you would have to ask the ACCC or relevant govt
departments such as your state Dept of Fair Trading.


A refresher for those with short memories or a poor understanding of
Australian law:

* consumer protection is the ACCC / government department's role.

* managing the .au namespace is auDA's role.  auDA can NOT rule on whether a
particular marketing practice is 'legal'.  auDA can (within limits)
implement contracts / agreements that have some consumer protection built
in.  There are limits to what they can do because as a monopoly, they can't
do things that unduly restrict competition.  In its current position as a
monopoly, Melbourne IT has similar legal problems about kicking out
resellers.

Once the new system is implemented and competition is introduced with the
new Registry / Registrar system:

* each Registrar will have more power to stop doing business with a reseller
than Melbourne IT currently has with its resellers
* auDA will have more control as it will have contracts with the Registrars
that specify certain things to do with Registrars & their Resellers

auDA's new whois policy is evidence of the tough stance it is taking on
consumer protection - auDA will be making less information available than
the gTLD and almost all other ccTLD Registries.

Also please remember that anyone can approach a domain name holder and offer
to manage their domain name - they don't have to be a Registrar or a
Reseller to do so.


Regards, Mark

Mark Hughes
Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
effectivebusiness§pplications.com.au
www.pplications.com.au
+61 4 1374 3959










> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ginger FISH [mailto:ginger-fish§scifi-art.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 May 2002 19:37
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: RE: [DNS] Internet Name Group
>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Since ING are forbidden to use snail mail for marketing purpose, they are
> probably now picking up the phone.
> I wonder if what they are doing is legal ( maybe it is, i don't know ) if
> they basically do the same thing but over the phone.
> It is a question you would probably have to ask to the CEO of auDA ( .au
> Administration ) Chris Disspain, maybe he knows.
>
> Best Regards
> Ginger
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan DeBritt [mailto:info.alan§webone.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 7:16 PM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: [DNS] Internet Name Group
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Today we had a phone call from Internet Name Group, asking us to renew
> our customers domain names through them. After telling them we renew
> domain names only through Melbourne IT / INWW they continued to tell us
> that they were a channel partner with Melbourne IT. This would of been
> very misleading to somebody who does not know how .au namespace works.
>
> Is this legal????
>
> Has anyone else had this???
>
> All the best,
> Alan
>
>
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