At 10:54 AM 24/12/2002 +1100, you wrote:
>I don't understand how Melbourne IT can have one password for a domain
>and AUDA has the modified A0 in front of the original password as there
>password. Why are they not the same?
>
>Case in point I have just gone through the exercise of transferring a
>domain to TotalNIC due date for the domain was 23/12/02 to be safe I
>transferred the domain last Wednesday I logged in to Melbourne IT with
>the domain name and password to make sure that it was the correct
>current password, it was. I even had Melbourne IT email the password to
>me to make sure.
>
>So what happens I find that the domain wasn't transferred and upon
>Questioning TotalNIC tech support I find that the domain wasn't
>transferred because the password was wrong it should have had A0 amended
>to the front so now my customer is dead in the water and has to wait 24
>hours to have the domain back up and running.

We have a simple tool that checks the validity of .au domain passwords. You 
are welcome to use it at 
http://www.conexim.com.au/domainnames/checkaupassword.php.


Kind regards,

Lucian Kafka
www.conexim.com.au