This makes for interesting reading and in particular the Access section discussed on page 24. https://www.auda.org.au/assets/auDA...ies-Implementation-of-Direct-Registration.pdf
The DNS is an Internet Addressing system not a Web Development Dictatorship.A registrant should have a six months grace period from first registration to meet the close and substantial connection test
Shift to .com!
Congratulations!.. wow!Paid $100k for land.com.au, won't get a token for land.au.... doh!
the PRP review is a persuasive document targeting the introduction of .au through the invitation of multimedia influence to support this implementation plan. in this regard, increased pressure to artificially push the market into hosting and web development services through policy that threatens to delete domains if not in compliance is just wrong.
I imagine the math has been done in relation to the drop off rate of domain names (under pressure to conform) compared with the increase in hosting and web development services that the Registrars will gain from this unnatural shift in policy. But, I cant see how this will benefit auDA's bottom line. The way I read it, the best 2LD names (com.au) will become locked out of SLD allocation and so those 2LD domains are forced to develop or die whilst only junk will remain floating around in the .au SLD namespace. The only net gain is a transfer of wealth to the registrars (hosting services) and the web development / SEO sectors. The overall creates will decline in the 2LD and the junk floating in the SLD is not worth buying. The overall number of domains will dramatically decline leaving auDA broke and the Registry questioning why it signed on that dotted line.
That is why .com.au is no longer an investment grade extension and prices are likely to drop further. Even if this policy never happens the namespace is being badly damaged by official panels proposing all of this. The people in charge are politicians, lawyers, professional board sitters and academics, not business people.
.com is the future, it will gradually get more an more used in this country because the namespace is extremely stable.
I doubt any measure of consultation will change their greedy and narrow mind, no matter how strong your argument is for the liberalization of the .au registration market.