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- Snoopy says November 2, 2017 at 10:38 am
*This is your chance to tell AUDA whether the .AU proposal should be scrapped or not.*
Ignore suggestions from AUDA staff that the merits of the proposal should not be discussed. AUDA hopes to quietly push this through without notifying the owners of the 3 million domains that this would effect. There needs to be a public debate on the merits of this proposal before AUDA can legitimately implement it.
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November 2, 2017 at 12:10 pm
Why does auDA and the auDA board continue to refuse to email and contact the existing .au registrants who will be affected?
auDA has over $10 million in the bank from domain name profits. They made another profit of over $2 million last financial year which could have been more if so much waste did not occur again on expenses and again over $1 million on “Consultants” etc. How can auDA justify over $7 million spent on “Consultants” over the years?* ( hard to get an accurate figure from auDA it may be more!).
auDA is setting themselves up for a possible Class Action Lawsuit by not contacting all of the existing .au registrants and providing them the real facts and some proper full disclosures ( in my opinion and the opinion of some others who should know the risk).
Some of the material put forward was false and misleading to even get to this stage. Surveys and questions where where in some cases “rigged” in my opinion… and some people are pushing for it for their own personal and company gain to the detriment of Australian business and existing .au registrants and consumers.
https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/5...ern-over-proposed-domain-name-system-changes/ - “ACCAN has consulted with a number of small businesses who have expressed concern over the proposed changes to Australian domain names. There is a strong likelihood that small businesses will incur extra costs due to defensive registrations, not to mention the extra time and effort they’ll need to spend ensuring their domain name and business are protected.
- “We are concerned that to date feedback on the changes has largely been from the domain name industry and the consultation has not adequately taken into account other perspectives such as those of small businesses. A lot of small businesses may not even be aware of the proposed changes,” she said.”
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https://www.auda.org.au/about-auda/our-org/constitution/
3.2 Activities
Without reducing the effect of clause 4, auDA will see to achieve its principal purposes as set out in clause 3.1 through:
b. establishing mechanisms to ensure it is responsive and accountable to the supply and demand sides of the Australian Internet Community;
c. the promotion of competition in the provision of domain name services;
d. the promotion of fair trading;
e. the promotion of consumer protection;
f. adopting open and transparent procedures which are inclusive of all parties having an interest in use of the domain name system in Australia;
g. ensuring its operations produce timely outputs which are relevant to the needs of the Australian Internet Community.
(Amended by Special Resolution, 14 August 2006)
http://mitchfifield.com/Media/Media...Id/1459/Modernising-Australias-au-domain.aspx
https://www.communications.gov.au/documents/terms-reference-review-au-domain-administration
https://www.communications.gov.au/file/31716/download?token=XGUWhNyj
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