Bennett,

Can you confirm that all domain application made under
the "close and substantial" clause are "vetted" by a
human at enetica. I do agree with you that legitimate
reasons should not be objected to I just wanted to
check that someone is actually reading these reasons
before approval.

I cannot see how names such as goog.com.au,
googe.com.au and yahho.com.au cannot be found to be
suspicious and that auda was not contacted for
verification.

While i can understand the wishes of consumers for
instant approvals, I cannot see why there cannot be
put in place mechanisms where the domain is put on
hold at the registry end until proper approval has
been given for cases like these. Also with the excess
funds that auDa seems to collecting they do not
allocate a person to deal with cases such as these as
I am sure with the relaxing of policy more
questionable registrations will occur.

Bill

--- Bennett Oprysa <bennett&#167;enetica.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> can you explain on what grounds a registrar would
> reject such an 
> application?
> 
> There are numerous reasons why it could be perfectly
> feasible, eg
> applicant provides support/advice specific to
> msnmessenger
> applicant sells addons for msnmessenger
> applicant has their own product called msnmessenger
> or something similar
> 
> all of the above are without question appropriate
> reasons for 
> registering the domain, for all we know the
> registrant may well fit one 
> of the above when applying for a domain. Do you
> expect registrars to do 
> a site visit and conduct interviews with the
> employees of the company to 
> make sure their claim is true for every application?
> 
> If the registrant has made a false warranty they
> risk losing the domain. 
> If they have also missused a trademark belonging to
> a multinational, 
> they also face the risk of incurring considerable
> legal costs when the 
> lawyers descend upon them.
> 
> As far as registrars being too lenient, the simple
> fact is that the 
> number of registrations cancelled by auDA due to
> people having made 
> false warranties can be counted on one hand last
> time I checked.
> 
> Bennett.
> 
> 
> Tony Owen wrote:
> 
> >> auDA is not run by registrars. It should be - if
> it was, policy would be
> >> objective and automatic, names would be cheaper
> and overall a far more
> >> rational and market driven system would pertain.
> > 
> > 
> > I probably am not up on all the facts but ...
> > 
> > If we are paying more for a name because a human
> "vets" names to avoid 
> > obvious shams, how the heck could
> > msnmessenger.com.au get through? or any of the
> other blatant trademark 
> > ripoffs?
> > 
> > Cheers Tony
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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