Hi All,
The price is the same as .com.au/.net.au registration fee, so I would assume all registrars will offer them at the same price. That is what we plan to do.
If there are 2 different owners of a com.au and any other extension, net.au. org.au edu.au, idn.au etc... that were registered before 4 FEBRUARY 2018 the cut off date, then those holders become Priority Category 1 holders.
From auda:
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Cut-off Date 4 February 2018
The Cut off date in the prioritisation process remains as 4 February 2018
This is the date that the 2017 Policy Review Panel began its public consultations in relation to the
implementation of direct registration, and first publicly discussed the Panel’s views as to various
implementation models.
auDA undertook extensive public consultation on the cut off date in late 2019, and a clear
majority supported keeping the cut off date as 4 February 2018.
Priority category 1: Names with a creation date on or before 4 February 2018 at 23:59:59 (UTC)
Priority category 2: Names with a creation date after 4 February 2018 at 23:59:59 (UTC)
Where there are Category 1 and Category 2 applicants, Category 1 applicants have priority over
Category 2 applicants.
Where there are multiple Category 1 applicants, all Category 1 applicants must agree on the
allocation, otherwise the name remains unallocated.
Where there are only Category 2 applicants, the name is allocated to the applicant whose
domain licence has the earliest creation date in the central registry.
"
This means that if there are 2 or more Priority Category 1 applications, meaning that 2 or more have paid the application fee, which is like a yearly "registration" fee, the domain is locked and no one gets it.
The parties need to agree and all other parties needs to either remove their application or not renew next year at which point the other party gets the domain. If you do not agree and every year, 2 or more renew their application, again paying the same "registration" like fee the domain is locked again for another year.. etc...
For uncontested names they all open up on 20 SEPTEMBER 2022.
The amount of development work that Registrars need to do to support this is not great, and registrars like our group that do not charge our registrar clients high margins, we do not see how this will be viable for us.
Cheers
David