Beats me. If the previous registrant let it expire, what other circumstances
gives them any more entitlement to the domain than yourself.

Gary 

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Oehlers [mailto:info§proweb.com.au] 
Sent: Friday, 13 August 2004 1:13 PM
To: dns§dotau.org
Subject: [DNS] Advice on registration of recent .net.au

Recently I registered chaos.net.au which was freely available for
registration. This domain name was one of the many .net.au drops which had a
30 day pending delete period (more than the standard 14 days) and I have
today received notification from auDA that the previous registrant remained
entitled to the registration of the domain name. Please note that a domain
name in pending delete status would have been inactive giving the previous
registrant substantial notice and opportunity to renew the domain.

Please go to http://chaos.net.au/audaletter.pdf to view the letter received
from auDA.

Can anyone shed some light on the matter? Or has anyone had any similar
experiences?

Craig