I think auDA and the ACCC have already proven their willingness and ability
to deal with dodgy operators in this industry.  There are at least two recent
examples that everyone on this list will be aware of.  

There will always be more that can be done and there will always be a lagtime
before regulatory processes catch up with organisations that are breaking
the rules, but I think it's important to recognise the advances that have
been made in the last 12 months.

You are entitled to your cynicism, I on the other hand choose to see the
glass as half full.

regards

jon


>-- Original Message --
>Reply-To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>From: "John Thomson" <john&#167;hep10.com>
>To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
>Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:55:29 +1000
>Subject: RE: [DNS] Consumer Alert
>
>
>I don't like being cynical but nobody is going to clean the Industry up.
>It
>is only a matter of time before some Gold Coast company is set up to
>telemarket to existing businesses for their domain renewal business. Why?
>Simply it is an easy sell. The fear of losing a domain name will make them
>easy prey and all they have to do is sign a simple form. Its virtually
a
>one
>call sell system. If any of you have telemarketing experience that
>translates to fairly easy money for the right operator.
>
>The only effective way to control it is via a controlling entity that has
>power to hit them hard and fast. Auda is not that entity at this stage.
It
>is a toothless tiger. Yes a warning! Stop or I'll say stop again. Scary!
>I
>agree with Richard but won't be holding my breath for it to happen. My
>advice is get used to scammers but stop blaming the wrong people. There
has
>barely been a mention of uregister but poor old bottle has copped heaps.
>It
>doesn't make sense to me. It is up to Auda to say to uregister you have
>breached our policy guidelines you have 14 days to show why you shouldn't
>be
>closed down.
>
>That's not going to happen. Until it does focus your writing on making
Auda
>into a tiger with bite and get off bottles back. Has uregister covered
this
>scam in their domain warning system? I bet not. They don't even use
>Australian hosting services so we should all be hammering them. Support
>Australian businesses and promote fair trading for all.
>
>Getting off my soapbox now. Flame away.
>
>John
>www.hep10.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Archer [mailto:rha&#167;juggernaut.com.au]
>Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 6:37 PM
>To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
>Subject: Re: [DNS] Consumer Alert
>
>
>
>>However I will raise this general point again.  Walking away from
>>organisations who have breached auDA policy in the past (as a lot of
>>them have, all be it minor), is the easy way out.
>
>What a cop out. Get some backbone and do some hard yards to clean
>up the industry on which you depend for your livelihood.
>
>Not that it should be an option. AuDA should be onto you like the
>proverbial ton for supporting rot like this. Shows just what sort
>of a job they're doing.
>
>
>>It's very easy to wipe your hands of something that's dirty.  Not so
>>easy to clean it.
>
>And it's even easier to stay dirty.
>
>I guess I'll just keep on looking forward to the next 20 junk mails
>I'm going to get from some rogue operator who is then allowed to walk
>off scott free with the profits from their little scam. And of course
>the accredited registrar they use gets to keep their share. And auDA
>gets their cut no matter what. And Ausregistry takes a slice.
>
>Everybody involved gets nicely rewarded from stuffing my PO Box with
>dead trees. There's no incentive to clean up this nonsense is there?
>
> ...R.
>
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