To be fair there are a variety of views expressed - mostly to do with a
banner we had on our home page soliciting Bottle's customers to consider us
if they are looking for a new registrar. Not unlike MIT and many other
registrars. Not unlike the one we have in place for WebCentral customers who
may want a new provider.

This thread is about auDA's and Bottle's actions - an entirely different
topic.

...and in case you think I'm guilty of hypocrisy by attacking auDA and
soliciting Bottle's customers, I did call Nick to let him know we would be
soliciting his customers like other registrars. 

So Josh, your comment is a little off topic.

Here's one post from that link (to make the point that there are a variety
of views expressed there:
User #112464   11 posts
metilly
Forum Regular
	

redkat writes...

"3. Larry Bloch, CEO and co-founder of Netregistry coments about auDA acting
as judge, jury and executioner by cancelling Bottle Domains' accreditation
so suddenly etc etc, meanwhile Net registry having the nerve to fun Fear
adverts and acting like a Judge themselves."

I read this as Larry saying that the actions of auDA were wrong but it
doesn't cover any opinion on Bottle.

Even if someone has admitted to wrong-doing, our society still doesn't
accept a single individual or single group being judge, jury and
executioner.

So to object to auDA's behaviour while advertising to Bottle customers is
not conflicting behaviour on the part of NetRegistry.

EDIT:
And just for the record, I've just checked my history to see when I've been
to NetRegistry lately and the last time was on Tuesday so I saw the advert
no later than then. Given that I'm looking for a domain registrar at the
moment and paying attention to what I read because I need to learn about
charges, I remember that it made it clear that .au names would be
transferred free but this didn't apply to other TLDs.

Regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: dns-bounces+larry.bloch=netregistry.com.au§dotau.org
[mailto:dns-bounces+larry.bloch=netregistry.com.au§dotau.org] On Behalf Of
Josh Rowe
Sent: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 11:36 AM
To: .au DNS Discussion List
Subject: Re: [DNS] Bottle breaches policy

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 05:34:04PM +1000, Larry Bloch wrote:
> Seriously, a transfer breach is a transfer breach - when we do it we all
> have to cop it. But if registrars think that they can rub their hands in
> glee over Bottle's de-accreditation by auDA, you should remember that it
> could be your business next.
> 
> I'm on Bottle's side on this [...]

[snip-snip]

Domain name resellers and registrants seem to have a different perception to
Larry Bloch's approach:

Net Registry targets bottle domain clients 
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1187564.html


Josh - speaking for myself
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