The domain name smarties at Nick Bolton's Australian Style have done it again - stuffed up, that is.
Over the weekend they attempted a bulk transfer of some twenty thousand customers domain names from one of Nick's accredited registrars to another.
The move was no doubt pre-emptive, and intended to forestall any loss of customers when Nick's domain name registrar business - Bottle - loses its accreditation from industry regulator, Au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA).
That may not happen next week, or even next month.
But happen it will, because Bottle undoubtedly covered up the fact that its systems were hacked into back in 2007.
That put Bottle in breach of its accreditation agreement with auDA, and left both looking silly earlier this year when the hacker was caught selling Bottle's customers credit card details online.
So Bottle is going down, even if Nick has been able to forestall it in the Victorian Supreme Court for a while.
Moreover the attempt to save customers from going elsewhere has also failed miserably.
auDA blocked the transfers, and has now locked down all Bottle's customers' names.
See the official announcement at www.auda.org.au
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