He tried to start the bidding at $900. :)


Drew

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Skeeve Stevens wrote:

> Ooooooooh... ouch.. that's gotta hurt!
>
> How much did he win the bid for and how much was he trying to sell it
> for?
>
> Selling domains is a breach of policy? ANY .au domains? Or just these
> auctioned ones?
>
> Not that I am in the domain selling game... but surely you cant stop
> people getting around this.
> Fine... don't sell a domain name... sell the business name which ones
> the domain name... or the shell company... which IS legal... and as a
> by-product they get the domain names as owners of the business
> entity.... nothing you guys can do about it as far as I am aware.
>
> ...Skeeve
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Disspain [mailto:ceo§auda.org.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:21 PM
> > To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> > Subject: RE: [DNS] Generic Domain Auction
> >
> >
> > Anthony,
> >
> > Many thanks for bringing this to our attention. The seller was the
> > successful bidder in the auction of this generic name. As yet
> > they have
> > not actually paid for the name or received a certificate of
> > entitlement.
> >
> > As you will be aware, offering domain names for sale is a breach of
> > policy and of auDA's terms and conditions and accordingly I
> > have written
> > to the seller informing them that we are withdrawing their
> > rights to the
> > name with immediate effect. The name will be re-auctioned
> > without their
> > participation.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chris Disspain
> > CEO - auDA
> > ceo§auda.org.au
> > www.auda.org.au
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: TV Fugly Awards [mailto:awards§fugly.com.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2002 12:17
> > To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> > Subject: [DNS] Generic Domain Auction
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This person is trying to sell sport.com.au here at ebay:
> > http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2046325933
> >
> > Yet when you search it the whois output says that is reserved
> > as part of
> > the
> > auDA Generic Domain Auction.
> >
> > Has the generic domain auction finished or is he selling the right to
> > bid on
> > the domain at the generic domain auction.
> >
> > I'm confused, whenever I ask auDA about the auction they state that it
> > isn't
> > finished yet.
> >
> > Also if he is selling the rights to bid on the domain,
> > wouldn't that be
> > a
> > breach of the whole auction process.
> >
> > anthony
> >
> >
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