Recently I registered chaos.net.au which was freely available for registration. This domain name was one of the many .net.au drops which had a 30 day pending delete period (more than the standard 14 days) and I have today received notification from auDA that the previous registrant remained entitled to the registration of the domain name. Please note that a domain name in pending delete status would have been inactive giving the previous registrant substantial notice and opportunity to renew the domain.

Please go to http://chaos.net.au/audaletter.pdf to view the letter received from auDA.

Can anyone shed some light on the matter? Or has anyone had any similar experiences?

Craig