At a time when banks are shedding IT roles by the dozen, it seems counter-intuitive that 83 per cent of the nation’s chief information officers should report they are confident about the future of their business to the extent that 45 per cent expect to hire IT staff in the first six months of the year. The question remains – is this a dead cat bounce?
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David Heath
Monday, 21 December 2009 07:47
This is the content of the letter, which addresses the circumstances of the unusual and very rapid execution of the domain name termination.
I'd like to take the opportunity to make the following representations to you on behalf of stephenconroy.com.au:
1) Our domain names were registered by a recognised business entity for the purpose of democratic protest against Senator Stephen Conroy. We feel that this constitutes a close and direct connection to the name. The website contains no illegal material.
2) We were given manifestly inadequate time to make submissions as to the validity of our registration. The research we've done indicates that this is almost unprecedented. We have been made aware of a policy dispute lodged over 'financetech.com.au' (auDA complaint C0908912) earlier today. In auDA's reply Vanessa Stanford notes that an investigation of this dispute could take up to 30 days. This seems to be quite contrasting with period of less than 3 hours we were given.
3) We are aware that auDA's office is closed between 22'nd December (tomorrow) and 11'th January. This would mean that our domain 'pending delete' would expire while your office is closed and we would arbitrarily lose the domains. How do you expect to run an investigation in to our eligibility while your office is closed ?
4) We request that the stephenconroy domains are immediately returned to our control. If you would like to investigate this further we request that control is at least returned for the break period in order to avoid us arbitrarily losing them.
Please note that this is an open letter which we intend to publish and release to the press immediately. As you may be aware this issue has and continues to receive significant media interest. Given that your office is closing tomorrow we request a reply to this communication as soon as possible.
In a separate release, a full chronology of the events of last Thursday and Friday outlines just how quickly the site was taken down. Quite reasonably (in iTWire's estimation), this smacks of political interference and must be investigated.
iTWire also understands that Electronic Frontier Australia (EFA) is intending to become involved in the case.
This story will be updated as the tale unfolds.
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