Yeah lets reintroduce the monopoly and centralise as much as possible. Competition is bad. Oh yeah and lets nationalise the banks while we're at it. >-- Original Message -- >Reply-To: dns§lists.auda.org.au >From: "John Thomson" <john§hep10.com> >To: <dns§lists.auda.org.au> >Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:41:16 +1000 >Subject: RE: [DNS] Consumer Alert > > >Well Ron just effectively solved the whole problem. That's a great idea. > >John > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ron Stark [mailto:ronstark§businesspark.com.au] >Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 8:32 PM >To: 'dns§lists.auda.org.au' >Subject: RE: [DNS] Consumer Alert > > >Time I woke up and stuck my oar in with something I've raised before. > >The solution is really easy - follow the car registration route, in which >the number plate is analogous to the domain name. > >Allow resellers to sell the *initial* registration, with a reasonable >mark-up; after all, domain names are usually sold as an adjunct to other, >higher value, services. Just like the number plate comes with the car. > >All renewals are then done at a *lower* rate, and solely through a central >authority, or at worst, solely through only accredited registrars. Just >like car registration renewals. > >All of the spam around renewals will stop - there and then. All of the >effort will then go into *new* business development, which is great for all >of us. > >Ron Stark > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: John Thomson [mailto:john§hep10.com] >>Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 8:55 PM >>To: dns§lists.auda.org.au >>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§juggernaut.com.au] >>Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 6:37 PM >>To: dns§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. >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------- >>------------ >>List policy, unsubscribing and archives => >>http://www.auda.org.au/list/dns/ >>Please do not retransmit >>articles on this list without permission of the >>author, further information at the above URL. 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