Revised draft .com.au policy:

1. GENERAL
The .com.au domain is intended for commercial for-profit
organisations and is administered by one or more DNAs.  ADNA offers
non-exclusive licenses to organisations to be DNAs in the .com.au
2LD.  Licenses are granted and renewed subject to the DNA continuing
to meet the specified criteria, and may may be revoked by ADNA
subject to the specified revocation provisions.  In the event of a
dispute between ADNA and a DNA, the disputant(s) agrees to submit to
and be bound by the dispute resolution process detailed in this
policy.

2. LICENSE TERMS
ADNA licenses for .com.au DNAs are issued subject to the following
terms:

2.1 Licenses are valid for one year or part thereof, starting on 1
July and ending on 30 June.  Melbourne IT currently has a license as
a .com.au DNA that expires on 30 June 2001 and will thereafter be
renewed on the same basis as other .com.au DNAs.
2.2 The domain name licence is non-transferrable.

3. LICENSE RENEWALS AND NEW LICENSES
A license to be a DNA in .com.au will be automatically renewed for
existing .com.au DNAs meeting the following criteria:

3.1 DNAs must be an incorporated body.
3.2 DNAs must pay annual renewal fees as set from time to time by
ADNA.  The fee for 1997/1998 is set at  $.50c per .com.au domain
name registered by the DNA.
3.3 DNAs must have a permanent connection to the Internet.
3.4 DNAs must be covered by at least $1,000,000 professional
indemnity insurance.
3.5 DNAs must abide by the Code of Practice as revised by ADNA from
time to time.

Applicants to become a new DNA must meet all criteria for Annual
License Renewal plus:

3.6 Applicants for DNA roles must pay an application fee as set from
time to time by ADNA.  The fee for 1997/1998 is $5,000 for
organisations who are not currently DNAs.  This amount, minus any
administrative costs incurred in processing the application, is
refundable to unsuccessful DNA applicants.

4. LICENSE REVOCATION
ADNA may revoke the license to operate as a DNA in the .com.au
domain for any of the following circumstances:

4.1 For breach of an applicant warranty (for example, for misleading
or incorrect information on the application form).
4.2 Where a court of competent authority determines that the domain
name should not be allocated to the applicant, or should be
allocated to another party
4.3 Where the commercial entity which owns the domain name ceases to
exist, or the licence to use the company or business (or other) name
is revoked or lapses.
4.4 Where the commercial entity which owns the domain name changes
its name; or where instructed by the current licensee of the domain
name

If a domain name licence is revoked, the name will remain dormant
for a period of three months.  During this period the original
licensee may address the issue which led to the revocation of the
domain name licence. After this period, the domain name will cease
to be allocated and can be applied for by another party.

5. DISPUTE RESOLUTION POLICY
This dispute resolution process provides for mediation and
resolution by an industry-accepted arbitration process.  The dispute
resolution process is:

1 The originator of the dispute notifies the DNA that there is a
dispute.
2 The originator, and any other parties must attempt to settle the
dispute by negotiation and conciliation
3 If the dispute is not settled by negotiation or conciliation, the
dispute is referred to the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre.
All parties agree to be bound by the ruling of the arbiter.

6. CODE OF PRACTICE
Refer to separate Code of Practice.

7. .COM.AU NAME ALLOCATION POLICY
This policy governs the third level domain name space immediately
within .com.au and applies from 24th February 1997 and replaces the
policy which applied from 1st November 1996. All existing registered
domain names, including those which do not conform to this policy,
will be honoured.
7.1 GENERAL
The purpose of the .com.au domain name space is to provide
Australian commercial organisations with a domain name which is:

? unique - the system will not accept applications for domain names
that already exist in the AUNIC registry.
? identified with the organisation
? not confused with other organisations' domain names

Names that meet the .com.au rules as detailed below will be issued
on a first come first served basis.
7.2 INCLUSIONS
Any legal entity which is a commercial entity that trades in
Australia can register a COM.AU domain name.  For the purposes of
this policy a commercial entity is considered to be one that exists
to make a profit.  Examples include companies, statutory
corporations or authorities, incorporated associations, partnerships
and sole traders.

A commercial entity is allowed one COM.AU domain name. Where
separate commercial entities exist within a parent entity (for
example, separate business names within a parent company), both the
parent company and the separate commercial entities may apply for a
domain name.
7.3 EXCLUSIONS
We recommend that certain other organisations obtain domain names in
other second level domains as follows:

.asn.au for not-for-profit organisations
.gov.au for government organisations
.edu.au for educational organisations
7.4 NAME ALLOCATION RULES
Each domain name in .com.au must:

7.4.1 Be at least two characters long
7.4.2 Contain only alphanumeric characters (i.e. a-z, A-Z, 0-9) and
hyphens
7.4.3 Start and finish with an alphanumeric character
7.4.4 Not be an Australian place name which has a postcode.
7.4.5 Be directly derived from the legal name of the commercial
entity;  the domain name can only be derived from the characters in
the full legal name of the commercial entity in the order in which
they appear. Additional characters that do not appear in the full
legal name of the commercial entity can not be used.
7.4.6 Not be a generic word describing products (goods or services),
industries, industry sectors, or organisations.  Examples of
unacceptable domain names include: beer (product), banking
(industry), industrial (industry), company (organisation type).
Generic phrases comprising of two or more generic words are allowed.

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4.3 & 4.4 were picked up from Leni's comments.  I don't know if they
should be there 'cause either I don't understand them or they're not
relevant to §LDs with multiple DNAs.  Or perhaps both :)

Regards, Mark


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