ASIC receives complaint about auDA auction

By James Pearce and Vivienne Fisher, ZDNet Australia
23 April 2002

A West Australian businessman has complained to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission over auDA’s handling of the auction of .au generic domain names. 

According to the proprietor, the business name condom.com.au was registered in June 1999 with what was then the Ministry of Fair Trading in Western Australia. He is now complaining to Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) because his application to bid in the auction for condom.com.au was refused on a technicality. 

Correspondence from auDA identified the problem as a failure to fill out the “State or Territory of Registration” part of the application form. 

“I applied in March, prior to the closing date, but the system accepted my application with out giving me a chance to print it out,” the businessman told ZDNet Australia. “I wasn’t given a reference number to keep track of it either.” 

Despite lodging an application before the January 31 closing date, notification of the ineligibility was not sent until April 15. According to the businessman, an appeal resulted only in a message from the auDA CEO confirming the ineligibility of the application and stating that no further correspondence would be entered into. 

More at: http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20264791,00.htm