The onus is on the entire industry's key stakeholders to make the domain
buying process as simple and safe as possible. History has already shown
that consumers have fallen for these early renewal type notices and then got
burned when the companies closed without the consumers getting what they
paid for. Everyone auDA, Registry,  Registrars, Resellers, each state office
of fair trading and asic needs to just work together to ensure it is a safe
and simple process. They need to work together because ultimatly we'll be
the one that will benefit if the industry is seen ina  good light because of
the growth possibilities that are availble. there are only 250,000 domain
registered yet there are 450,000 australian small businesses. also the
opportunity for growth is tremendous if the industry can successfully market
the  .id.au  namesapce to the Australian public. But unless the industry is
cleaned up these opportunities will just fall by the wayside.

> From: Jason Pay <jasonpay&#167;au1.ibm.com>
> Reply-To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:23:27 +1100
> To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: Re: [DNS] Consumer Alert
> 
> The Registrar fees paid to auDA should be enough to pay for a quarterly
> auDA 'Authoritative' mail out similar to the one I mentioned below.
> 
> Maybe each 'Registrar' should also think about sending a mail out to each
> registrant advising them of the situation... authorised and ethical
> resellers of each registrar?
> 
> Maybe auDA could send out a 'new domain pack' with each new registration
> or enforce a policy with the registrars to do the same, there are many
> solutions to the situation, but again the onus should be on the registrant
> to make an informed choice, there is no lack of information available on
> the net about these issues.