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Bottle Domains loses auDA Registrar Accreditation.

If you or someone you know has a ‘.au domain name’ managed by Bottle Domains then this affects you...

auDA terminates Australian Style Pty Ltd (t/a Bottle Domains) registrar accreditation On 23 July 2010, the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria dismissed Bottle Domains’ appeal in proceedings against auDA.

Pursuant to the decision (available here), auDA has today terminated the registrar accreditation of Australian Style Pty Ltd trading as Bottle Domains, for a serious breach of its obligations under the Registrar Agreement.

In February 2009, auDA was notified by the Australian Federal Police that there had been a security incident which affected customers of Bottle Domains. Refer to auDA Announcement 10/02/09.

auDA subsequently discovered that Bottle Domains was the subject of an earlier security incident in April 2007, which auDA believes may have caused or contributed to the security incident in February 2009.

Bottle Domains failed to notify auDA at the time of the April 2007 security incident, which was a breach of its obligations under the Registrar Agreement. Bottle Domains also failed to take appropriate remedial security action and alert customers of the incident.

These failures led to auDA's decision to terminate Bottle Domains' registrar accreditation on 15 April 2009 , however the termination had been suspended pending the conclusion of legal proceedings.

Following Friday’s decision in its favour, auDA has today re-initiated the termination process. Approximately 8,900 domain names registered by Bottle Domains have been transferred to auDA, and the registrants of these names will be sent instructions on how to transfer to another auDA accredited registrar.

“The domain names of Bottle Domains’ customers are NOT at risk. auDA is in the process of contacting all those whose domain name is registered through Bottle Domains to provide them with all the information they need” said auDA CEO, Chris Disspain.

How does this affect Bottle Customers?

Please note that your domain name is NOT at risk. Your domain name will continue unaffected until the expiry date.
In order to renew your domain name before it expires, or make any changes to it in the meantime, you need to transfer it to a new registrar of record.

If your domain name is managed by someone else (eg. your web host), then you should contact them for assistance. If you manage your own domain name, then please follow the instructions below.

Free Domain Name Transfers and Safe Domain Management

Transferring domains from your Bottle Registrar account to Intaserve is free.
You will only need to pay for renewal of the domain name when it comes up for renewal at $27.95 for 2 years registration.

Will my site be affected?

No. Any technical services such as email or web site hosting are not affected at all. You will simply be updating the ‘Registrar of Record’.

What next?

You can initiate the domain name transfers through the following link http://www.intaserve.com/domainnames/renew-transfer.asp by entering your domain name and domain password.

If you do not have your domain name password you can recover it through the following link http://admin.auda.org.au/password_recovery/blank_recover_password.faces as long as the registrant email is still valid.

In addition IntaServe will be offering 50 % off any of our shared hosting services, which can be viewed at http://www.intaserve.com/web-hosting/compare.asp

If you have any queries or need any assistance please feel free to contact us on 1300 850 071 or 02 92835100.

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