The Australian Web Site Developers Association prepares to battle with auDA. 

The president of AWSDA Paul Klerck is now preparing for a massive damages claim against auDA the Australian Domain Administrators. AWSDA and auDA have been in a battle over their domain name policy guidelines for more than 4 months now over the rights and use of nearly 500 domain names under the .org.au extension.

As of yesterday afternoon auDA knowingly broke the Trade Practises Act by deleting all accept 8 of AWSDA’s domain names. AWSDA has proven eligibility to auDA, however Chris Disspain CEO of auDA does not care he has dug his heels in and has said aura is in another stage of reviewing AWSDA’s submission to keep the domains but all domains will remain in a pending delete status until aura have finalised their review.

AWSDA has over 170 members and is supported by some very influential business people that are not prepared to wait or be bullied by auDA. This is a total conflict of interest auDA constantly operate above their own policy guidelines they do not care. How can a public listed company have a say over this? is this not a conflict of interest? AWSDA has taken its complaint to Senator Conroy the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy as well as the ACCC and ICANN.

I firmly believe that the government needs to step in and review and audit auDA on their policy guidelines and real motives.  I believe that any parties that have been dealt with unfairly by auDA should contact Paul Klerck on +617 55809599 so that we can lobby Federal Government to have auDA reviewed.

Mr Disspain is auDA a public company, association or non profit organisation? Just curious to see why you have LTD after the auDA name yet your own auDA domain name is not registered to an association or organisation, is this not a breach of your own policy guidelines?