Without speaking for auDA, what you'll find is that auDA has always budgeted a 
surplus, due largely to very conservative budgeting but also to build 
finances to handle forseen (operating costs) and non-forseen contingencies 
(once off legal actions for example).

They are by definition a not for profit entity, so I think what you'll find is 
that they have decided they have a sufficiently large bank balance to cover 
reasonable operations and contingencies, and are now running a budget that is 
either break even or in slight deficit. 

Thats very normal and is really a non-story. 

On Friday 05 December 2008 15:16:57 DomainNames.com.au wrote:

> and since auda is in the red, does that mean we will start seeing more
> domain names being deleted and placed back into the pool for
> re-registration?