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The Commission received complaints that a number of internet businesses could not advertise in the classified sections of the Queensland Newspapers' papers including The Courier Mail.
Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd has given undertakings to the Commission that:
it will establish a separate classified advertisement category entitled "Internet Classified Services" for the general and lift out sections of its newspapers;
within the general part of the newspaper, the new category will be published next to classified advertisements in the "Internet Services" category on days when advertisements are published;
advertisements for a specific good, service or opportunity that contains a URL/email address that is less than 25% of the total lineageof the advertisement will be permitted in the specific good, service or opportunity classified column;
advertisements that contain a URL/email address that is greater than 25% of the total lineage of the advertisement may be placed in the general or business pages of the paper;
the Internet Classified Services category will also be placed in lift outs such as the real estate or motoring lift outs and can include display advertising.
Contiki is an international travel group of companies offering tours to 18-35 year olds. One of the Contiki group of companies, Contiki Travel Europe, advertises, organises and operates Contiki European tours.
The ACCC instituted Federal Court Proceedings against Internet Registrations Australia Pty Ltd in September 2002, alleging that Internet Registrations Australia had made false or misleading representations regarding registration and renewal of Internet domain names.
On 29 November 2002 the Federal Court issued consent orders against Internet Registrations Australia (IRA) including permanent injunctions stopping IRA from engaging in the same conduct in the future, an order requiring Internet Registrations Australia to undertake a trade practices compliance program, and declarations that the conduct of Internet Registrations Australia breached relevant provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
Among other things, the Court declared that IRA had made false, misleading and/or deceptive claims in breach of the Trade Practices Act by representing:
to business that it had a pre-existing relationship or prior dealing with them;
that it had authority to register or renew a consumer's domain name and could provide the services of registration or renewal; and that it could register ".com.au" domain names on the Internet for periods of four, six, eight or ten years, and that registration for periods over two years would involve savings;
and a demand for payment for unsolicited domain name services.
In conjunction with consenting to the Court orders, Internet Registrations Australia undertook to send notices of corrective advertising to customers and to provide refunds to those who had been misled by their conduct.
The Nuance Group (Australia) Pty Ltd (the Nuance Group), is the company carrying on the retail business of Downtown Duty Free (DDF) and City International Duty Free (CIDF).