It's all very well to talk about legal protection and to provide for legal recourse. The weakness is that an aggrieved registrant is unlikely to have the resources to fund defence of their rights, in which case the protection is worthless. As a very wise lawyer said to me (Craig - where are you??) - a patent is only worth the amount of money I can put up to defend its violation. Ron Stark : -----Original Message----- : From: dns-bounces+ronstark=snapsite.com.au§dotau.org : [mailto:dns-bounces+ronstark=snapsite.com.au§dotau.org] On : Behalf Of Ian Johnston : Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 2:26 PM : To: .au DNS Discussion List : Subject: Re: [DNS] Time : fortherulestochangeregardingtransferringdomainnamelicences : : Tony Owen wrote: : > Personally, I think a transfer fee (picking a random : number ... > $50) : would : > stop a whole heap of these scams, and the revenue could be used to : > reduce the cost of the base registration fee. : : In an *efficent* secondary market, transaction costs should : be as low as possible, cost-based (auDA and/or Registrar : transfer fee) and determined by competing market : participants (eg Registrars). Registrars may bundle : different levels of marketing services with transfer services. : : Scams are probably best dealt with by other measures, : desirably put in place by auDA, but if need be by the : co-regulator (ACCC) and/or specific Federal legislation with : provision for penalties. : : Ian Johnston : : ------------------------------------------------------------- : -------------- : List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ :Received on Thu Sep 29 2005 - 04:33:52 UTC
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