Submit feedback to auDA. I’m sure if enough people feel the same way things may change back to how it was. I’ve done my bit. I’ve just received a renewal letter for a .au domain at $job for $275 for two years through a registrar that the company does not normally use and sounds very scammy so looks like I’m about to go through the same process :(
Cheers Matthew > On 11 Jul 2018, at 20:20, Ted Cooper <ml-ausnog-xviii...@linuxwan.net> wrote: > > It would be much better if we could return to the previous function of > immediate email of the password to the registrant contact email address. > There is no benefit to forcing engagement with the losing registrar, > especially when they are non-cooperative or cactus. > > Case in point - the "this is not an invoice" scams. > > After 5 years of falling victim to the scam, the original scam company > being closed down by ASIC or similar, all positive control over the > domain was lost by the client. The contact email address was still valid > but Afilias refused to pass on the password to it to allow me to fix the > domain by transferring to a responsible registrar. The scam company > refused to cooperate with the Afilias phone call, effectively blocking > the ability get the password. > > In the end I emailed _everyone_ in the chain (scam company, TuCows, > Afilias, auDA) about the situation and _one_ of them did the deed and > sent it to the contact address. A week after starting and the domain is > finally transferred and fixed. > > For the love of all things good, just send the damn password to the > email address! Why does it have to be anything but automated?? I'll fix > the contact information when it gets here. > > >> On 11/07/18 16:37, Bryce Telfer wrote: >> Unfortunately, the new Domain Password Recovery system that Afilias >> provide (https://afilias.com.au/about-au/domain-pw-recovery) is a poor >> substitute for the previous AusRegistry system. >> >> Rather than an immediate, automated email to the Registrant Contact, >> the new system involves someone at Afilias making a telephone call to >> the Registrant Contact Phone Number sometime in the next 2 days. >> >> Time to do a thorough clean-up of all the Registrant Contact Phone >> numbers on all our domains..... >> >> *Bryce Telfer* >> >> p| 1300 720 790 e| brycetel...@allinternet.com.au >> <mailto:brycetel...@allinternet.com.au> >> >> >> On 21 June 2018 at 21:01, Nathan Brookfield >> <nathan.brookfi...@simtronic.com.au >> <mailto:nathan.brookfi...@simtronic.com.au>> wrote: >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> The .AU domain registration agency is changing from AusRegistry o >> Afilias but that’s all, no real changes to the community except >> dealing with a new registrar body, no changes to .au domains are >> coming on that date. >> >> Nathan Brookfield >> Chief Executive Officer >> >> Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd >> http://www.simtronic.com.au >> >> On 21 Jun 2018, at 20:50, Christopher Hawker <m...@chrishawker.com.au >> <mailto:m...@chrishawker.com.au>> wrote: >> >> Hi All,____ >> >> __ __ >> >> With the changes coming on 1^st July to the way .au domain >> registrations, is there a way to pre-register .au domains? Or is it >> a matter of “first in, first served”?____ >> >> __ __ >> >> Thanks,____ >> >> CH.____ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net <mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net> >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> <http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net <mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net> >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> <http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog