I would like to know the official ADNA position on Peter Gerrand's 
statement below, that the existing commercial second-level domains are 
com.au, net.au, org.au, asn.au, conf.au and info.au.

The draft Registrar Licence Conditions on www.adna.asn.au do not define
a commercial SLD.  They say that Registrar application fees ($5,000)
apply to those without a current ADNA Registrar licence (ie everyone),
and to commercial SLDs.  The commercial SLDs must also pay License Fees
of $1 per domain name.

What is the official ADNA definition of the commercial SLDs?

Kate Lance



Peter Gerrand wrote:
> The commercial SLDs in .au are by definition those available for use by
> Australian entities in the commercial sector (excluding educational bodies,
> government bodies and CSIRO who have specialised SLDs reserved for them:
> edu.au , gov.au and csiro.au). The commercial SLDs therefore logically
> consist of:
> (a) the current SLDs com.au, net.au, org.au, asn.au, conf.au and info.au; and
> (b) proposed additional commercial SLDs such as pr.au.
> 
> This may seem to be radical stuff to some of you accustomed to the
> 'received wisdom' that only fee-charging SLDs are commercial, whereas
> 'free' SLDs are non-commercial - but that view simply doesn't stack up to
> market reality. The commercial users of 'free' DNs want the same level of
> service performance, for registration, delegation, redelegations and
> help-desk support, that they get from a properly resourced, professional
> DNA service - that usually charges fees to pay for those resources. 
> In short, the definition of "commercial" should be decided by analysing the
> demand side (end-user needs) and not just the supply side (current DNAs'
> preferences).