On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:51:04 +1000, "Rowe, Joshua"
<Joshua.Rowe&#167;auspost.com.au> wrote:

>auDA suspends Internet Name Group following ACCC action
>http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=686&mode=thread&order=0
>
>Domain reseller suspended
>http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4179253%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E,
>00.html
>
>ING suspended admidst court action
>http://zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000025001,20264761,00.htm
>
>ACCC takes reseller to court (requires subscription)
>http://afr.com/premium/it/2002/04/22/FFX8DZUS90D.html
>
>auDA pulls ING's accreditation
>http://www.itnews.com.au/story.cfm?ID=9613

Also below is a NZ story.  People may be interested that ING is still
suspended as a .nz provider and the NZ Commerce Commission last year
issued it an official warning for breaches of the NZ Fair Trading Act.

DPF


>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=1792818
>
>{PRIVATE}Banned registrar attracts fresh wave of warnings 
>
>25.04.2002 - By ADAM GIFFORD 
>With the persistence of a Nigerian con-man, Melbourne internet 
>registrar Internet Name Group is again deluging New Zealand 
>domain name holders with offers to register alternate names at 
>inflated prices. 
>Internet Name Group was banned from selling .nz addresses last 
>September after a similar bulk mailing to more than 100,000 name 
>holders. 
>"They are still banned because they would not comply to our 
>conditions, which include not doing mail-outs of this sort," said 
>Derek Locke, chief executive of New Zealand internet name registry 
>Domainz. 
>"Our advice to people who receive these letters is to rip them up 
>and throw them away." 
>He said Domainz was investigating how the company intended to 
>register .nz names. 
>Internet Name Group is also in trouble across the Tasman, where 
>the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will 
>tomorrow seek a permanent injunction against the company and 
>director Mark Spektor for misleading conduct. 
>The ACCC alleges that since about July 2000, Internet Name 
>Group has made false or misleading representations regarding 
>registration and renewal of internet domain names. 
>It is also seeking costs and refunds for affected businesses. 
>For its latest mail-out, the company, calling itself Internet Name 
>Protection Pty, appears to have compared the database of owners 
>of .co.nz addresses against the .net.nz list. 
>It then sent "registration advice" - in a form which at first glance 
>could be taken as an invoice - that the .net address is currently 
>unregistered. 
>"As an existing .co.nz domain name licence holder, please be 
>aware if you do not register the above domain name, then it could 
>be registered by any other applicant," the letter said. 
>Registering the domain costs $125 a year, credit card payments 
>only. 
>In contrast, New Zealand registry Freeparking.co.nz sells domain 
>names for $39.95 plus GST. Xtra sells them for a $35 set-up fee 
>and $7 a month. 
>The letter lists several prominent New Zealand companies it claims 
>have registered or renewed domain names with Internet Name 
>Protection. 
>New Zealand Road Transport Association general manager Brian 
>Priest said he did not know how his organisation's name got on the 
>list. 
>"We only have one website and we register it through Xtra," Priest 
>said. 
>Spektor was not available for comment. 
>
>                {PRIVATE}©Copyright 2002, NZ Herald 
>                                  

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