[AusNOG] .au Domain Registrations

[Ted Cooper]

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| brycetelfer at allinternet.com.au
> <mailto:brycetelfer at allinternet.com.au>
> 
> 
> On 21 June 2018 at 21:01, Nathan Brookfield
> <Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au
> <mailto:Nathan.Brookfield at 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 <me at chrishawker.com.au
>     <mailto:me at 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.____
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