Re - 1 & 2 below.

Resellers should not be restricted because of the illegal activities
of others and the failure of the ACCC to act promptly to prevent
continuance of illegal activities.

Re - 2 below: Resellers would not be resellers at all, if they were
only making the initial sale; they would be merely affiliates instead.

Barry



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Stark" <ronstark&#167;businesspark.com.au>
To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: RE: [DNS] auDA email


| I see only six options:
| 
| 1 - Permit only direct sales from registrars to registrants, which would
| eliminate resellers of domains;
| 
| 2 - Allow resellers to make only the initial sale, with renewals direct via
| registrars, much like car registration (it seems that the renewal market is
| the most abused);
| 
| 3 - Allow only resellers who agree to comply with the code of conduct - and
| jump _hard_ on those who violate its provisions.  This would necessitate
| removing the current regime of voluntary compliance and maybe beefing up
| punitive provisions;
| 
| 4 - Forget about self-regulation and go for statutory regulation, like the
| car and building industries;
| 
| 5 - Accept that there will always be cowboys, so be vigilant and jump very
| hard and make a real example of those who step out of line - in the hope
| that aspirant cowboys will think twice;
| 
| 6 - Put a lot of effort into educating a largely-ignorant marketplace (new
| and existing registrants) so that the cowboys' misrepresentations have no
| credence.  At the moment consumer education is predominately through first
| or second-hand bad experience.
| 
| Ron Stark
| 
| p.s. - for you, Adrian - "I think I must be a lesbian, because I prefer
| women"
| 
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian&#167;creative.net.au]
| Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2002 4:18 PM
| To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
| Subject: Re: [DNS] auDA email
| 
| 
| On Wed, Sep 11, 2002, Richard Archer wrote:
| > At 14:44 +1000 11/9/02, Chris Disspain wrote:
| > 
| > >Apologies. The multiple email problem should be solved now.
| > 
| > Excellent.
| > 
| > And what are auDA doing to prevent such cowboys undertaking
| > another mailout which necessitates yet ANOTHER consumer alert?
| > 
| > The amount of deceptive, illegal, immoral and unscrupulous antics
| > going on within the realm of the .AU domain at present beggars
| > belief. Why are auDA as managers of this domain not acting
| > deliberately and forcefully to stamp out this nonsense?
| > 
| > Releasing "consumer alerts" which in fact degrade the image of
| > the .AU domain even further just doesn't cut it, I'm afraid.
| 
| If a company pops up that is simply retailing domain names from someone,
| who/what can AuDA actually _do_ about it?
| 
| I keep asking this question, and noone seems to answer it.
| I'm all ears for a solution (or, preferred, a set of solutions)
| but besides using the existing channels (Fair Trade, ACCC) I'm
| quite stumped.
| 
| 
| 
| Adrian
| 
| -- 
| Adrian Chadd "<WeBGrrL> i WAS a lesbian.....but now i
| love everyone :P"
| <adrian&#167;creative.net.au>
| 
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