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Sent: Sunday, 20 May 2007 9:16 AM
To: jo.lim@auda.org.au
Subject: Issues Paper, May 2007
Hi Jo, 



I just wanted to voice my opinion regarding some of the changes there will be in discussion 
especially the possible change to a just only .au domain for all Australians.





I’m against opening the .au domain to direct registrations. I think it will only bring lots of 
problems, confusion, unnecessary extra cost and lengthy and costly legal battles to determine 
who owns the direct .au domain



I have to say that having a direct .au domain sound very attractive but the disadvantages of 
introducing this policy at this stage, far outweighs the advantages. I think this policy should 
have been introduced at least 10yrs ago.



Everybody around the world knows that if you want to see an Australian website in the world 
wide web, you need to type.com.au    I’m a small business owner, I have several websites, I run 
my business from home, by myself and making sure that the structure of my domain stays the same 
(i.e. .com.au, .net.au. org.au, etc) is very important to me and I'm sure that for other 
Australians as well.



I think people should have the opportunity to protect their brands and having a direct .au 
domain wouldn’t do that. Proposing to keep to current 2LD hierarchy and allows others to still 
register directly under the .au domain the same domain name, will undermine the current 2LD 
domain, loss of business for current 2LD domain owners and force current 2LD domain into legal 
action to protect their brands. As a small business owner is something I can’t afford. I’m sure 
there lots of people out here that will find themselves in the same situation.



I have a few domains and I have used some of these domains for at least 6yrs now. With some of 
the domains I own, I find myself in the situation where I own the .com.au part of the domain but 
someone else owns the .net.au part of the same domain and viceversa. I’m sure that there are lots 
of cases outhere where one person for example owns yyyyy.com.au, someone else owns, yyyyy.net.au 
and maybe someone else owns yyyyy.org.au. If these proposed changes go ahead, how we going to 
determine who owns the direct .au  of that domain?  Obviously only one person can own the direct 
.au domain and what will happen to those that miss out not being able to own the direct .au of 
that domain?   I’m afraid a lot of Australians would be losing their home based business or other 
business in general due to these changes. 



There’s lots of Australians that depend on the internet to make a living. I’m trusting that you 
will make the right decision at the end. Why try to fix something that isn’t broken?



Thanks,



Enrique Campbell.