One day later and the details on the domains

TREECUSTODIANS.COM and NIGHTGEN.COM have been updated

but still show Aussie HQ as the proud owner of these 2 domains,
one whose site is about a tree in Africa and one whose site appears
to belong to a heavy metal band.

Changing ownership of domains that were under an existing Planet Domain
reseller site to Aussie HQ ( a deregistered business name )
and also changing the Registrant contact email address, after buying an existing
Planet Domain reseller site

http://featuredomains.com

does seem very strange conduct for an AU Registrar, and other people
may be able to judge better than I if such conduct is less serious or worse
than the conduct for which the former AU Registrar
TotalNIC was deaccredited by AUDA for.
Which was in regard to TotalNIC making transfers out difficult
for their TLD Registrants some years ago.

Latest whois results show:

Domain Name: TREECUSTODIANS.COM
Reseller..............: Feature Domains
Created on............: 2 Apr 2008 09:05:29 EST
Expires on............: 2 Apr 2010 09:05:29 EST
Record last updated on: 2 Apr 2008 09:05:29 EST
Status................: ACTIVE


Owner, Technical Contact:
Aussie HQ (ID00425042)
P.O. Box 3168
Weston, ACT 2611
Australia
Phone: +61.261762000
Email: provisioning§aussiehq.com.au
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Louise Cusack (ID00425616)
P.O. Box 5111
Daisy Hill, Queensland 4127
Australia
Phone: +61.408723697
Email: lcusack§uq.net.au




Domain Name: NIGHTGEN.COM
Reseller..............: Feature Domains
Created on............: 6 Mar 2004 18:53:47 EST
Expires on............: 6 Mar 2011 18:56:47 EST
Record last updated on: 4 Mar 2009 10:36:29 EST
Status................: ACTIVE


Owner, Billing Contact:
Aussie HQ (ID00425042)
P.O. Box 3168
Weston, ACT 2611
Australia
Phone: +61.261762000
Email: provisioning§aussiehq.com.au
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Richard Sbresny (ID00425558)
P.O Box 3023
Victoria Point West
Brisbane, Queensland 4165
Australia
Phone: +61.422512750
Email: voidet§nightgen.com




Another related issue that AUDA may be interested in is that many people in posts at

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1286187

have complained of being forced to renew domains early.

I am not sure if some of those complaints are also in relation to AU domains which are
within 90 days of the expiry date.


Given that all the domains that were under the reseller site http://featuredomains.com
were under Planet Domain as the Registrar these are also issues that perhaps
Planet Domain should be taking some interest in, and action to protect Registrant's
domains from unauthorised ownership changes.



Regards
Barry Armstrong



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