A statement from the auDA stated the decision to dump NetRegistry -following the breach of security and other matters of concern". NetRegistry director Giles Donovan, described the dispute as a reconciliation issue, and commented that the company's agreement with the auDA had been fraught for some time.
-Essentially we agreed to host AUNIC for free, so the only way to make it commercially viable from our point of view was to access the information contained on the database and use it in reports and so fourth," Donovan said. -They disagreed that we should have been doing that and terminated the agreement."
NetRegistry initially won a tender to host AUNIC roughly three months ago, allowing the company to past its logo along side the database search facilities. According to the auDa statement the termination of the agreement signifies the end of NetRegistry's involvement with AUNIC and the removal of the company's logo from the database's Web site.
The AUNIC provides information about domain name ownership in Australia, and is theoretically protected against bulk searched to guard against abuse of the system or improper use by commercial interests.
The auDA has received legal advice not provide details as to the nature of the -security breach" which lead to the feud, and described their investigations as -ongoing".
For the time being AUNIC is being hosted by Optus, with the auDA revamping its backup and redundancy processes.
