[DNS] Licence Period

[DNS] Licence Period

From: Tony Owen <tony§seol.net.au>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:33:21 +0930
Is the expiring domains stuff available for everyone to harvest, or do you 
need to be a registrar ?

Cheers Tony


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Jones" <dj_david_jones&#167;yahoo.co.uk>
To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <dns&#167;dotau.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [DNS] Licence Period


>
> --- Bennett Oprysa <bennett&#167;enetica.com.au> wrote:
>
>>  If someone
>> were to register your
>> expired domain in the hope of making money from your
>> brand/company name,
>> they would be in breach of the domain rules. Unless
>> your domain is a
>> generic product or service, it would also not likey
>> make money for a
>> monetiser.
>
> I can't see how any of the following for example would
> be protected by the policy.
>
> eg. seek.com.au or abc.com.au or wishlist.com.au or
> ipaustralia.com.au etc etc
>
> We all have a right to register them we just have to
> make sure we don't infringe on their trademarks. For
> example I could register seek.com.au and launch a
> search engine as long as I don't offer employment then
> I don't infringe on their mark.
>
>>
>> > Enetica is now monitoring dropped names
>>
>> We've been doing it for 3 and a half years actually.
>> We're just ramping
>> up the level and range of monitoring.
>>
>>
>> > I presume these are only those registered through
>> enetica
>>
>> No, it's all domains.
>>
>
> Now that is an interesting fact. What other
> information are registrars able to get their hands on.
> I thought the whois info was not available to
> registrars in full and that you could only monitor
> domains by availability.
>
> DJ
>
>
>
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