AUDA would just tell them to contact the registrar, and the registrar would just tell them to contact AUDA.

No, auDA would say you've registered the domain against policy and delete it.

They may also slap the registrar on the knuckles?

No, I spoke to them on a similar issue and they don't really care.
A guy had a domain registerd with a friends ABN number and the friend canceled the ABN. aUDA said they could do nothing and that it was up to the registrar.

Great to see that auDA enforces their policies these days...hey!

Oh well, if anybody wants to report a domain to the auDA, the form is at auDA

Sidenote, the hyperlink renaming feature on this forum is still lame

Why do that? "they don't really care", remember?

Somebody should put it to the test with, say, freewebdesignonline.org.au?

Yeh, He'd lose it in a second.

I got the .org.au domain for the site as I offer services, (most of which are free) for non profit and community organisations.

You're still not eligible as you're not a registered organisation.

Go and tell AussieHQ that. Who would have had to have looked at both the content of the website and the associated details.
I must say as well at this point that I am very happy with the overall level of service that I have recieved from both AussieHQ and Jumba.

I thought they were a registrar of their own now? Your domain is still with D.IT

Anyway, it's not really in their best interests to reject any applications.

Yeah, but I originally got the domain name through AHQ originally.
They are a registrar themselves.

I'd disagree with that. In fact from the perspective of a Registrar I'd say that they 'care' too much.

The process is, an interested party (usually someone trying to get the domain) makes a complaint to auDA. They format the complaint and pass to the Registrar with instructions for action.

I'd guess we see maybe a couple of complaints come through a day from them. Fair enough where ABN's etc have been cancelled, but the show cause requests for generic domains, which have bona fide live business websites on them are a bit tedious.

What its up to us as a Registrar to do, is obtain 'show cause' information from the registrant and pass back to auDA. If they are happy with it, the domain lives, if not we'll be instructed to cancel it.

If we don't obtain the information by the required deadline date in the initial complaint, we'll be instructed to cancel it.

For deregistered ABN's or ACN's it's a slightly different process, but still a process we need to follow. I've personally only seen very frivolous complaints ignored by auDA ... me I wish they'd either ignore or vet more. Actually I'm all for seeing the introduction of a complaint handling fee of say $25 per complaint.

In responce to the concerns raised regarding Free Web Design Online and the .org.au domain name.
There has been some level of confusion regarding the policy requirements for .org.au domain names. This has since been resolved.