|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: dns-bounces+dassa=dhs.org§dotau.org 
|> [mailto:dns-bounces+dassa=dhs.org§dotau.org] On Behalf Of 
|> Jon Lawrence
|> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 2:01 AM
|> To: .au DNS Discussion List
|> Subject: Re: [DNS] Secondary Market
|> 
|> >Is Australia the only country that doesn't have a secondary 
|> market in 
|> >domain names?
|> 
|> No.  There is and always has been a secondary market for .au 
|> domain names, it's just not officially sanctioned and is 
|> therefore very cumbersome and inefficient.  

You can read this as to say, No, there are other domain spaces which don't
have secondary markets allowed in their policies and that some people
disregard the .au policies as they see a secondary market as a means of
developing their personal finances.
 
|> >Does a lack of secondary market affect the development of 
|> the com.au 
|> >namespace?
|> 
|> As above, the lack of an officially-sanctioned process for 
|> the trading of domain names creates inefficiencies and 
|> denies businesses their legitimate right to acquire and 
|> dispose of assets as they see fit.

As it is against .au policy some people find it difficult to fully exploit the
name space and feel restricted by the policy which is a good thing.  The
policy helps to keep the name space available as intended.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch