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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [DNS] Licence Period > > --- Bennett Oprysa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > All New Yahoo! Mail - Tired of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@! come-ons? Let our > SpamGuard protect > you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/
