"No where in there does it say that you can register a domain name so you
can open sit on it and do what you like LATER on"

And nowhere does it say you can't.  It does say that you cannot sell the
domain name as such, but that is not your gripe. auDA is not in the position
of prescribing how you operate your business, unless your are in the domain
name industry at some level.

You are attempting to ascribe to auDA a responsibility it doesn't have - and
shouldn't have.

Ron Stark

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Shahin [mailto:tshahin§senet.com.au]
>Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 6:09 PM
>To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>Subject: RE: [DNS] com.au Domain Names...
>
>
>Well, according to AUDA policy,
>
>ELIGIBILITY AND ALLOCATION RULES FOR COM.AU
>
>1. To be eligible for a domain name in the com.au 2LD, registrants must
>be:
>
>................. etc
>
>2. Domain names in the com.au 2LD must:
>
>a) exactly match: 
>(i) the registrant's company, business, trading, association or
>statutory body name; or
>(ii) the words comprising the registrant? Australian Registered Trade
>Mark or application for an 
>Australian Registered Trade Mark; or
>
>b) be an acronym or abbreviation of 2a) (i) or (ii); or
>
>c) be otherwise closely and substantially connected to the registrant,
>because the domain name refers to.
>(i) a product that the registrant manufactures or sells; or
>(ii) a service that the registrant provides; or
>(iii) an event that the registrant organises or sponsors; or
>(iv) an activity that the registrant facilitates, teaches or trains; or
>(v) a venue that the registrant operates; or
>(vi) a profession that the registrant's employees practise.
>
>No where in there does it say that you can register a domain 
>name so you
>can open sit on it and do what you like LATER on
>I think the AUDA policy is quite clear but is not being inforced
>Shame
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Niall Baird [mailto:nbaird§vbwebsolutions.com.au] 
>Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:28
>To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>Subject: [DNS] com.au Domain Names...
>
>
>Unless you have a trade mark which is the subject of the domain name
>dispute, I'd suggest that you wouldn't have much hope of getting it.
>
>This happened to a friend of mine a couple of years ago, where someone
>had a similar business name to his company name, and he waited for the
>domain renewal to come up.  During this time, he also registered his
>company name as a trademark.  Once it (the domain name) was 'free', he
>registered it - having the trademark gave him a certain amount of
>protection if it came to a dispute b/w the previous 'owners' and
>himself.  While the AUDA policy doesn't state (I think) that trademarks
>have more rights to a domain name than any other company or business
>owner, trademark protection has been proven in courts in both the USA
>and here, to be the strongest form of protection over a
>name...consequently, I think AUDA would have to uphold a 
>dispute where a
>domain name was registered to someone other than the trademark owner.
>
>Niall Baird
>VB Web Solutions Pty Ltd
>www.vbwebsolutions.com.au
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tim Shahin [mailto:tshahin§senet.com.au]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 3:42 PM
>> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>> Subject: RE: [DNS] com.au Domain Names
>>
>>
>> I did,
>> The reason I am asking is that I made a Complaint about a 
>domain name 
>> which was registered 8 month ago and has not been used. The 
>complaint 
>> failed. The domain name registered has not been redelegated or used. 
>> No real proof was shown for commercial use other than that they said 
>> that they are going to use it. Hence my questions............
>
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