Domain Registration Services wrote:

] Quite a few clients have called today demanding to know how IRA obtained
] their details. They've all received renewal notices for domain licences not
] due until, ....    December 2002.
] 
] Is there any chance auDA could make the creation date disappear on the
] public records ? It seems as long as there is any mention of dates these
] poor consumers are still going to continuously receive deceptive rubbish the
] mail.

Mark Hughes already answered that question.

But I'm curious about a few things: 

(1) Do we have any evidence that expiry dates are being extrapolated
    from AUNIC domain creation dates rather than Melb IT expiry dates?
    This could be tested on pre-1996 domains (which all expire at the
    same time, regardless of creation date) or old-ish domains where
    the creation date is actually an old last-updated date.

(2) If organisations are using creation date records from AUNIC,
    what are the chances that they have already got lots of dates
    recorded in a database?  (In which case blocking public access
    to this data will make no difference to them.)

(3) If organisations are using creation date records from AUNIC
    and they don't have them stored in a database, so lets assume
    those organisations can no longer extrapolate an expiry date,
    how will not knowing the expiry date stop them from sending
    out "deceptive rubbish"?

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 David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au>  URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
Cybersource P/L: Unix Systems Administration and TCP/IP network management