On Sun, Oct 28, 2001, Craig Ian Dewick wrote:

> I agree. All of the non-commercial .au 2LD's should be handled seperately
> by a registry set up specifically for the task. It should be non-profit
> itself to ensure focus is maintained. Even APANA could take on the role,
> but of course since we're non-profit, we wouldn't have the resources to
> pay someone else a huge sum for the priviledge of being the official
> non-commercial .au 2LD registry. 8-)
> 
> So at least .org.au .asn.au and .id.au should be given over to a
> non-profit registry to manage, with auDA just acting in a support role,
> not a governing role. auDA should. while they're at it, stamp out the
> practises being employed by the .com.au scare-mongering Melbourne-IT
> channel partners to fraudulently obtain money from .com.au domain owners.
> grrr
> 
> Ideas?

Yes. Leave the bad com.au partners and their bad practices alone, and
focus on the real issue here - that AuDA and the public comment
bit didn't actually raise anything about a freely-run registry for
the historically (and hopefully future) free 2LDs inside Australia.

Right now I'm just focusing on trying to keep asn.au, id.au and
org.au free. I do believe that AuDA is doing the right thing in
regards to com.au and net.au, and I do believe that their work is
going to open up competition and an overall improvement in those
2LDs. However, asn.au, id.au and org.au should not be turned into
a commercial playground.

asn.au is a shining sample of a well-run volunteer-staffed registry
which shows that a group of volunteers CAN run a registry that will
handle the small load that asn.au, org.au and id.au will generate.
Take a look - http://www.west.net.au/ .




Adrian

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