[AusNOG] .au Domain Registrations

Wed Jul 11 21:45:44 EST 2018

Hi all,

The automated recovery via email will be reinstated as soon as possible. Hopefully this week.

https://afilias.com.au/frequently-asked-questions

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How do I complete a domain name password recovery?

In the first instance you should contact your registrar to recover your domain password. If they are unavailable, please go to this link<https://afilias.com.au/about-au/domain-pw-recovery>.

We're working on a replacement solution for our own recovery function which will be email-based. We will update when that's available.

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WHOIS is now available at: whois.auda.org.au<http://whois.auda.org.au/> on both port 43 and HTTPS.

auDA and Afilias are working hard to tidy up these few issues. That FAQs page and the Whirlpool thread are good places to follow this.

If there are any urgent "website down" type issues, like you raised Ted, please feel free to contact me off list and I will see if I can be of assistance.

Kind Regards,
James Deck
Managing Director
Clevvi
- Formerly 1300 Web Pro
p1300 932 776
ejdeck at clevvi.com.au
wclevvi.com.au
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On 11 Jul 2018, at 9:23 pm, Matthew VK3EVL <hitman at itglowz.com<mailto:hitman at itglowz.com>> wrote:

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.ve at linuxwan.net<mailto:ml-ausnog-xviii.ve at 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| brycetelfer at allinternet.com.au<mailto: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>
<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>
  <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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