The letter is interesting. I would like to point out what I observed reading it.

If the registrar had done a mistake woundnt they issue a chq for mistake and in 
fact issue the letter?

9 days (August 2nd to 13th) seems short time to look at the this issue from all 
sides.

I think for auDA to issue could mean that the registry might have released the 
name by mistake or that the orginal registrant did renew the name but a mistake 
occurred (again likley at the registry level).

All in all looks like someone/thing did a major screw up and AUDA rushed of a 
letter as soon as it was reported/discovered. 


Steven Heath
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