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auDA puts recycled domain names up for grabs

IT Policy - Regulation

The Australian domain name administration, auDA, is now publishing on its web site a list of existing .au domain names for which registration is about to expire, enabling anyone interested to try an secure a sought-after domain as soon as it becomes available: but the list includes names that auDA has already banned!

Buyers beware, auDA does not distinguish on the list between domain names that have been deliberately relinquished by their owners, lapsed through oversight or negligence, or banned by auDA itself.

All names are "available for registration on a first come, first served basis subject to auDA policy rules," and some of them are available only because auDA has already decided that they do not meet these policy rules!

One such is optuspoo.com.au set up by social media consultant, blogger and commentator Laurel Papworth in mid 2009 "to create an online community of people annoyed with Optus."

Papworth explained: "I'd had shocking service from Optus and was in the mood to shine some social media spotlight on to poor customer service in Australia."

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