Thanks guys, I appreciate the support everyone from the forum and industry has given me. It has been a long road, 3 years in the making....
While there are a lot of people who gave me support and encouragement, I wanted to give a special thanks to Chris and Ned. Thanks for your support over the years!
It is an honour to have been elected!
Congratulations Erhan and Stuart, whats the plan from here now you are in? Anything you can share you will be raising for discussion and possible change?
Would be great to see more members of this forum attend the next meeting as todays meeting had very few questions raised or fully answered when raised to the board.
What came out of it I remember was
1. Definately no .au extension coming. Totally No chance at the moment or next few years
2. 1,2,5,10 year domain name registration extensions possibly for 2014
3. Domain registrant transfer to use existing period instead of new renewal to be relooked at legally if it would be possible. ( so you dont need to pay for a new registration you use the exisitng period of time left on the name)
4. Auda won't make any official press release about their website being hacked as nothing / no sensitive data was apparently taken anyway
5. Westlake report has not been acted upon fully and no time lines given when it will be
6. More people invited to join names Policy panel
7. Talk of the board being too large or how the Board numbers stack up, demand - supply - Independants etc.
anything else missed or worthy of you saying you will be raising at your earliest chance?
If you want to get involved people join auda and make your voice heard http://www.auda.org.au/membership/membership-overview/
