Quoting Ian§LemonStone on Wednesday August 21, 2002:
| 
| If the new regime came into effect on the 1st July at 10:00 am then would an
| application made for a domain name at 9:30 am fall under the old or new .au
| policy. 
| 
| I personally would say it fell under the old policy but auDA seems to have a
| different opinion to me on this one.

My understanding was that you could not have submitted an application at
9:30am because the old registry/system/policy closed a few days prior
and therefore no applications were being processed. If you sent them to
a registrar I guess they were queued until 10am and then processed.

kim