Editing AUValidation (section)

= What is it =
With the release of second level .AU domains on Mar 24, 2022, private individuals will finally also have the opportunity to register any domain they like under .AU.

AuDA, however, requires all Registrars to validate the details of anyone applying for a .au domain âusing Reliable and Independent Electronic Data or valid identity documentsâ before submitting their application to the Registry systems.

For Australian businesses, this type of validation is already built into the regular registration workflow, using the ABN/ACN numbers provided in the domain registration command.

As 2nd level .au domains are open also to Natural Persons, HEXONET will need to perform validation of the applicantâs details before submitting their orders to the Registry.

Unlike ABN/ACN numbers lookups, these checks are not free.

To meet the demand for .au registrations from private individuals, we have created this separate Verification service that Resellers can use to verify the details of their customers before submitting registration orders on their behalf.

The reason this was built as a separate product was to minimize the changes required to the existing .AU orders flows and to reduce impact of these changes on those Resellers that only work with business customers. Additionally, as each private customer only needs to be validated once regardless of the number of domains they wish to register, this was considered the most efficient way to offer this opportunity also to these customers.