ZDNet Australia notes that Domain Names Australia and its director Chesley Paul Rafferty have been found guilty by the Australian Federal Court, following the company's re-registration mailout scam in 2003.
The 25-year-old former school friends operate a number of internet related companies either separately or as joint directors and shareholders. Some of these companies have sent letters to businesses and organisations that are, according to regulatory and consumer authorities, misleading and deceptive or intended to be so because they look like invoices for the renewal of internet domain name registrations.
With one exception, the letters invited owners of .com.au, .co.uk and .co.nz websites to register names in the parallel .net.au, .net.uk or .net.nz domains.
The full story can be read here, while an earlier article about the scam can be seen here.