Cay,
I think it's a bug. I will do some testing, file it and fix it. Changing AS_DEF_DOMAINS_PATH should have worked. Anyway, why don't you use --domaindir on start-domain (pointing it to the parent folder of the folder where your domain's configuration is copied) for now?
Thanks,
Kedar
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