auDA review in The Australia

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A few days old:

AusReg mention:

THE federal government said it would examine the practices of Australian domain name technology specialists pursuing lucrative contracts helping Middle-Eastern regimes censor the web.

Australia's quasi-government appointed domain name wholesaler AusRegistry has revealed it has supplied at least three theocratic regimes with the means to maintain "reserve lists" of forbidden domain names and to blacklist certain words from name registrations in the country code spaces.

Mentioned auDA review:

A spokesman for the DBCDE said that the government needed more time to consider the issue as part of its current review of auDA when contacted by The Australian.

"The Minister has initiated a wide-ranging independent review of the activities and functions of auDA. It would be inappropriate at this stage to pre-empt any of its findings," the spokesman said.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/aus...-auda-operations/story-fn4htb9o-1226070895867

 

[brettf]

Hilarious. So AR provide registry software to spec for ccTLDs and the Government is upset and using scary words like blocking domains and censorship. Which is different to Conroy's internet filter in practice how exactly?

They filter the internet based on umm .. a magical list of domains/URL's that no-one is allowed to see.

For what it's worth the exact same system is in place with the .au Registry, including shock horror reserve lists of words that you can't register. The list isn't maintained by AR, but by auDA - same as the other ccTLD's one would imagine.