or you could go to auda.org.au   they look after .au
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Robb" <doug&#167;clarity.com.au>
To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:35 PM
Subject: [DNS] Trade Mark Owners and .com.au


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> This week I applied for a .com.au domain with MelbourneIT
> for a domain name for my registered trademark and was
> refused on the basis of:
>
> MIT> ### YOU DID NOT PROVIDE A VALID REGISTERED BUSINESS
> NUMBER (RBN)
>
> My response will be: I am a trade mark owner, not a
> business.
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> MIT> ### DOMAIN NAME IS NOT DIRECTLY DERIVED FROM THE
>      ORGANISATION NAME
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> My Response: There is no requirement for a trademark to
> be directly derived from an organisation name. Quite simply
> an organisation name doesn't and needn't exist!
>
> Before I respond to MelbourneIT can someone let me know the
> status of the current policy.  I thought the new policy was
> that trademark owners can register a .com.au domain based on
> their trade mark,
>
> eg owner of trademark 'mymark' can apply for mymark.com.au
> as ownship of the trade mark is now a sufficient condition
> in itself to quality for a .com.au domain.
>
> I certainly don't want to go through the charade and expense
> or registering yet another business name just to secure the
> .com.au to a name that I have obvious commercial
> rights/interests in (otherwise I wouldn't have gone to the
> trouble of getting a trademark in the first place!).
>
> Any good advice for me?
>
> regards doug
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