If it wasn’t September I would have thought the headline I saw at Domainer.com.au Monday was an April Fool’s joke. It said auDA Board Just Voted to Destroy the .com.au Name Space – but it was no joke. AuDA, the administrator of Australia’a .au top level domain and parent of second level versions like .com.au, .net.au and .org.au – decided to stab their loyal .com.au customers in the back by passing a rule that will make it too expensive for hundreds of thousands of domain owners to renew their names.