David

Why should the auction results be private????
I can only see downside in that auDA won't get as much publicity and the
public less timely information ??

Surely the auDA as a public representative body should disclose how much
money it is making and disclose it in a timely manner - 45 day+ intervals
are for only a trickle of information is IMHO not even close to good enough.

I have clients who are screaming at me for information about the auctions -
they are registered bidders and have ZERO information as to what is
happening.  The only info they have is what I provide them second hand from
the auDA website - but we have already established that the info there is
over 45 days old!!!!!

I too am registered as a bidder and would not have any information (other
than reading the article that Kim referred me to earlier) about what was
happening or the progress of the process. That document despite being 45+
days old only tells me that they are only up to domains beginning with C on
the list.

Are they still only up to the C's ??????????????  I can't find anything to
indicate otherwise!

Didn't auDA originally state that all auctions would be completed before the
end of May 2002 ???????????????

Where are they up to on the list now??????

<irate  ON>   Who knows this information?????????   The public surely
don't!!!!!!!!!!!   </irate OFF>

Hey auDA; how about providing the public with some relevant, timely and
useful information?  You might turn it into a profile building exercise at
the same time - surely that can't hurt your almost invisible to 'Joe Public'
profile?

Phil Wright


-----Original Message-----
From: David Keegel [mailto:djk&#167;cyber.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 17 May 2002 10:57 AM
To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
Subject: Re: [DNS] Where to find?


] For example why is it not possible for aunic to obtain
] the rights to aunic.net.au and aunic.com.au. I think a
] good lawyer would soon provide a solution. How can
] auDA let this continue.

(1) AUNIC has a perfectly good domain name, aunic.net

(2) www.aunic.net.au and www.aunic.com.au both have at the
    top of the web page:
      If you arrived here expecting the Australian Network
	  Information Centre (aunic) Click Here
    So it would be hard to argue passing off etc.

(3) AUNIC does not suffer any economic loss by some other
    random person having a similar looking domain name.
    I'm not a lawyer, but I've been told that this would
    make it difficult to convince courts to intervene.

However, once the new regime is in place (which shouldn't
be long now) one of the components of it will be the AUDRP.
This will open up new options...

] When issues such as these are brought up are they
] voted on by the board. Are there minutes of meeting
] available. If correspondence is entered into with auDA
] must it be entered into the minutes and discussed
] properly.

If people can find auction results which are supposed to
be private (and hopefully are private now), I'm sure they
can find the minutes which are supposed to be public.
(Or maybe people would be more interested if we pretended
the minutes were secret...)

__________________________________________________________________________
 David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au>  URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
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