>It is important to remember you are being sold a fixed term license to a
>domain name, not the domain name itself. You are not sold a domain name
>and you do not own it, you are merely licensed it. The license allows
>you to nominate data (NS records) to place in auDA's zone file.

I think it's also worth remembering that although you may only have a
licence to hold a domain name, as long as you continue to remain eligible to
hold that licence, and continue to remember to renew it, it is in effect
yours, in perpetuity.

While that's legally not ownership per se, in practice it's much the same
thing.

Jon 


-----Original Message-----
From: dns-bounces+jon=jonlawrence.com§dotau.org
[mailto:dns-bounces+jon=jonlawrence.com§dotau.org] On Behalf Of Kim Davies
Sent: 18 July 2006 17:13
To: Charlie McCormack
Cc: '.au DNS Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [DNS] Secondary Market

Quoting Charlie McCormack on Tuesday July 18, 2006:
| 
| It could be argued they are selling Intellectual Property they have no
right
| to.
| [..]
| So then don't they only administer a records system, which they charge an
| administration fee, which then means they also have no rights to these
| domain names, so then aren't the restrictions illegal, and could they be
| [..]

It is important to remember you are being sold a fixed term license to a
domain name, not the domain name itself. You are not sold a domain name
and you do not own it, you are merely licensed it. The license allows
you to nominate data (NS records) to place in auDA's zone file.

In much the same way, auDA does not own ".au", it is licensed to it by
the operator of the DNS root.

kim
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