>> "Essentially we agreed to host AUNIC for free, so the only way to make it
commercially viable from our point of view was to access the information
contained on the database and use it in reports and so fourth," Donovan
said. "They disagreed that we should have been doing that and terminated the
agreement." (snip)

Is this a true quote? - I can't believe that a company as (reputedly)
professional as NetRegistry would risk losing so much for the sake of a
small green ledger entry. Surely the kudos and ability to market themselves
as the AUNIC hosts would have been worth far more in future sales and
reputation than any short-term gains sought by accessing the database (an
action that was always going to be open to issues of privacy etc.).

Plus this comment (if made) surely leads a lot of people to now question the
definition of 'so forth'... what else was Netregistry using our personal
information for? - I for one would be very interested to know what Mr
Donovan defines 'so forth' as being.

Rgds, Don Cameron


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