I was surprised to see melbourneIT up there since I live in the same city they're based in. I'm wondering why an American company is using an Australian registrar, can anyone enlighten me?
I checked their website and they offer both affiliate and reseller programs. My best guess is that it's actually a 3rd party that sold the domains, yet a whois lookup returns the name of the parent company/true registrar. From what I can remember, domains purchased through OpenSRS's white-label domain reseller program still reveal that Tucows is the registrar, regardless from what partner of theirs you bought it from.
Maybe someone with more knowledge can help out.