In fact the rules are in the been changed (and are in the process of being
implemented) to a situation where the only meaningful test is that you are a
registered Australian entity. Beyond that, you will simply have to warrant
that you have a close and substantial connection to the name without
providing detail as to what that connection is.

Overall, I think it's a good thing - it makes the policy simpler for
registrants (not all are as clued up as those on this list) and preserves
the only real policy of value - keeping registrants in com.au identifiable.

As Kim rightly notes, every other policy has been rorted by registrants
determined to obtain a name of choice.

Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Davies [mailto:kim§cynosure.com.au] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2005 8:21
> To: Marty Drill - Domain Candy
> Cc: dns§dotau.org
> Subject: Re: [DNS] Searcher twists name rules
> 
> 
> Quoting Marty Drill - Domain Candy on Wednesday March 23, 2005:
> | 
> | ____________
> | From auDA:
> | 
> | With regards to the allocation, they have stated that it is 
> a service 
> | they provide and the service is a directory service.  So if 
> you type 
> | desperatehousewives.com.au into the browser, it does 
> actually come up 
> | with a directory listing.  Same with parishilton.com.au. 
> ____________
> | 
> | So I suggest that the interpretation is that you can 
> register a domain 
> | as a service of your business, if it provides a service of 
> finding the 
> | content that you (user) are seeking.
> 
> It really makes me wonder why we bother to have naming policy 
> if the rules are intepreted so loosely. I'd rather have more 
> strongly enforced policy, but we seem to be at a situation 
> where we are just paying for unnecessary overhead, because 
> any restrictions are easily subverted by anyone that tries.
> 
> kim
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