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auDA wins brief reprieve from boardroom battle

Kevin Murphy, April 30, 2018, 13:28:20 (UTC), Domain Registries

Australian ccTLD registry auDA has managed get a small delay, smaller than it wanted, to the deadline for a special member meeting at which the fate of its chair, CEO and two directors will be decided.
After more than 5% of its membership signed a petition calling for the vote, it had until June 7 to open the polls.
But then it was stung by the findings of a governmental review of its structure, which concluded it was “no longer fit for purpose” and ordering a board shake-up of its own.
Deciding that it had to prioritize the government review, auDA last week sued the main organizer of the petition and former board member Josh Rowe, asking a court to allow it to delay the meeting from June 7 until mid-September, to coincide with its annual general meeting.
But the court told the organization it instead has until July 27 to hold the meeting.
auDA said it was “pleased” with the ruling, but Rowe wrote that auDA had “in effect lost” the case.
Rowe called the brief litigation a “disgraceful waste of tens of thousands of dollars of .au domain name registrant’s money”.

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  1. Laurie Patton says:
    May 10, 2018 at 9:48 pm

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