David,

It has come to my attention that MIT informed auDA at
the time, that auda.com.au had been applied for. The
board at that time had no objections and felt that if
there were issues arising the ACCC could deal with it.
I suppose this is another typical example of auDA's
lack of foresight. 

Grumpy


 --- David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au> wrote: > ] For
example why is it not possible for aunic to
> obtain
> ] the rights to aunic.net.au and aunic.com.au. I
> think a
> ] good lawyer would soon provide a solution. How can
> ] auDA let this continue. 
> 
> (1) AUNIC has a perfectly good domain name,
> aunic.net
> 
> (2) www.aunic.net.au and www.aunic.com.au both have
> at the
>     top of the web page:
>       If you arrived here expecting the Australian
> Network
> 	  Information Centre (aunic) Click Here
>     So it would be hard to argue passing off etc.
> 
> (3) AUNIC does not suffer any economic loss by some
> other
>     random person having a similar looking domain
> name.
>     I'm not a lawyer, but I've been told that this
> would
>     make it difficult to convince courts to
> intervene.
> 
> However, once the new regime is in place (which
> shouldn't
> be long now) one of the components of it will be the
> AUDRP.
> This will open up new options...
> 
> ] When issues such as these are brought up are they
> ] voted on by the board. Are there minutes of
> meeting
> ] available. If correspondence is entered into with
> auDA
> ] must it be entered into the minutes and discussed
> ] properly. 
> 
> If people can find auction results which are
> supposed to
> be private (and hopefully are private now), I'm sure
> they
> can find the minutes which are supposed to be
> public.
> (Or maybe people would be more interested if we
> pretended
> the minutes were secret...)
> 
>
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