<Rescued miner's names, registered as .AU domain names> deleted by the Australian domain name administrator, auDA, 24 hours after their registration.
auDA press release [auda.org.au]
[edited by: Webwork at 9:21 am (utc) on May 11, 2006]
[edit reason] Clarification [/edit]
"Oh, but I registered them because I was going to make a website celebrating their rescue."
Ya, right, all heart and pure as the driven snow I'm sure.
Perhaps there ought to be a presumption of invalidity and revocability in the case of registering people's names, at least those name domains registered in proximity to public events involving a person of "that name"?
There's just something that feels right about this one,
That's what I was thinking too. I also made note of it because I have not heard of auDA deleting names very often. Do they?
(A quick scan of their news archive indicates that they don't usually publish the fact that they do.)
