auDA who is the .au regulatory body will become the acting registrar for the domain in the interim period between company X going belly up and the registrant selecting a new registrar.
A very similar thing occurred at the time of deregulation of the space. auDA became the registrar of record for all .net.au domains (about 10,000 or so), registrants had to then transfer the domain to a registrar in order to be able to manage contact details, delegation and the like.
Brett Fenton
Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:24:26PM +0000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
** Reply to note from David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:54:43 +1000 (EST)
excuse my ignorance, but..... What happens if your registrar company (whoever they are) go belly-up? I'm sure that all IT companies are run by reputable businessmen with incredible acumen and skill, but you never know, do you?
it's my understanding that even if your regisrar goes belly up, the names
will be registered for the full 2 years, regardless,
Although, since your domain information is managed through your registrar, and not the registry, that if you want to change your details you have to switch to a new registrar before you can do anything like that (such as change contact details, DNS servers, etc).
- Matt
-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
