AUDA will change the registration policies and eligibility requirements for .au third level domains.
Please check the links below for more details and examples:
https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/new-au-licensing-rules
General changes to registration and management of all domain names under .au:
Renting or leasing of domain names to a third party as well as proxy or privacy services are prohibited, the only exception is the registrations by related corporate bodies such as Australian subsidiaries.
The window to restore a cancelled domain is set to two days, the window to fix minor policy breaches is increased from 12 to 30 days.
Registrants must provide additional warranties and consent to the collection, processing and publication of their registration data by the registry.
https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/new-au-licensing-rules/changes-how-registrants-use-and-manage-au-domain-names
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- Changes for .com.au and .net.au:
Registrants using a Trade Mark as basis for their eligibility must bear in mind that the domain name must include all the words in the order in which they appear in the Australian Trade Mark, excluding: DNS identifiers such as com.au; punctuation marks such as an exclamation point or an apostrophe; articles such as ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘and ’or ‘of’; and dashes or ampersands. To remain eligible for a domain name the registrant should change the basis on which it meets the Australian presence requirement.
Companies can now apply for and hold .au domain name licences on behalf of another company in their corporate group (a ‘related body corporate’), as long as that related company meets the Australian presence requirement.
The definition of ‘commercial entity’ has been expanded to include Commonwealth entities, statutory bodies under commonwealth state or territory legislation, incorporated limited partnerships under State or Territory legislation, trading co-operatives and the government being the crown.
The registrant must provide company registration or trademark registration numbers that can be matched to the respective Australian government databases.
https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/new-au-licensing-rules/comau-and-netau-rule-changes
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The registrant must be a not-for-profit-organization. The definition of that term has changed as detailed in the link below. Unincorporated associations are no longer eligible in this TLD unless it is registered in the Australian Charities and Not for Profit Commission’s (ACNC) Register of Charities. Other unincorporated associations are eligible to register in the asn.au namespace.
The registrant must provide organisation registration numbers that can be matched to the respective Australian government databases.
The allocation rules are changed as well, please see the link below for details.
https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/new-au-licensing-rules/orgau-rule-changes
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Names that refer to a personal interest or a hobby can no longer be registered in the id.au namespace.
The id.au domain name being applied for must be:
a) a match to a Person’s legal name, first name or family name;
b) an acronym or abbreviation of the Person’s legal name, first name or family name; or
c) a nickname of the Person.
It is recommended that registrants apply for priority to register the matching second level .au name once the implementation of second level names begins.
https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/new-au-licensing-rules/idau-rule-changes
Please note that domain name registrations that used to be eligible under the old rules but are no longer eligible under the new rules cannot be renewed after April 12, 2021 unless the registration information is updated to comply with the new policies. These changes will be hard-coded in our system to enforce the new policies.
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- Check of X-AU-DOMAIN-IDNUMBER / X-AU-OWNER-ORGANIZATION
For AddDomains, for Trades and for Modifies affecting the respective extensions checks will be done to make sure that the data provided is valid (X-AU-DOMAIN-IDNUMBER, X-AU-OWNER-ORGANIZATION). X-AU-DOMAIN-IDTYPE determines if, respectively, how the check is done, as we access different external databases or might not have a database available (when Type = OTHER), depending on this type. We check IDs of the type ABN or ACN against the entries of the ABR. For IDs of the type TM there is a trademark database.
Until recently it was also compared with the entry "Organization" at the Domain Owner. But this check was removed now.
- Mapping of X-AU-Extensions
We removed extensions that are used for the mapping which are not in use at all anymore.
But the mapping does not make a difference for the use of the extensions.
No extensions are added or removed.
Registrant Name: => X-AU-OWNER-ORGANIZATION
Registrant ID Type: ABN/ACN etc => X-AU-DOMAIN-IDTYPE
Registrant ID Number: => X-AU-DOMAIN-IDNUMBER
Eligibility Name: => X-AU-OWNER-ORGANIZATION (formerly: X-AU-DOMAIN-RELATIONNAME → doesn’t exist any more)
Eligibility ID Type: => X-AU-DOMAIN-IDTYPE
Eligibility ID Number: => X-AU-DOMAIN-IDNUMBER
Eligibility Type: Company, sole trader etc => X-AU-DOMAIN-RELATIONTYPE
- Precheck for X-AU-DOMAIN-IDNUMBER / X-AU-OWNER-ORGANIZATION
In the course of the changes we also provided a precheck which is now already available in the LIVE system. It allows you to check already now if the data of the extensions is correct. This precheck is included in the AddContact command and can be called as follows:
[COMMAND]
command = AddContact
title = [TEXT]
firstname = [TEXT]
middlename = [TEXT]
lastname = [TEXT]
organization = [TEXT]
street0 = [TEXT]
street1 = [TEXT]
street2 = [TEXT]
city = [TEXT]
zip = [TEXT]
state = [TEXT]
country = [COUNTRY]
fax = [PHONE]
phone = [PHONE]
email = [EMAIL]
X-AU-DOMAIN-IDNUMBER= [TEXT]
X-AU-OWNER-ORGANIZATION= [TEXT]
X-AU-DOMAIN-IDTYPE= [TEXT]
checkonly=1
EOF
As the domain owner contact needs to provide a valid Australian postal address, the below states (provinces) are valid for the state contact field:
Check of X-AU-DOMAIN-IDNUMBER / X-AU-OWNER-ORGANIZATION
For AddDomains, for Trades and for Modifies affecting the respective extensions checks will be done to make sure that the data provided is valid (X-AU-DOMAIN-IDNUMBER, X-AU-OWNER-ORGANIZATION). X-AU-DOMAIN-IDTYPE determines if, respectively, how the check is done, as we access different external databases or might not have a database available (when Type = OTHER), depending on this type. We check IDs of the type ABN or ACN against the entries of the ABR. For IDs of the type TM there is a trademark database.