auDA AGM 2005 Minutes
Friday 18 November 2005 11am
Maddocks, 140 William St, Melbourne
Chair: Tony Staley
Secretary: Jo Lim
Returning Officer: Chris Disspain
Apologies: Kim Davies, Roger Dean
Introduction and Welcome by the Chair
Motion (moved TS, seconded Marty Drill): That the notice of AGM is to be taken as read. Carried.
Quorum (7 members) present. Meeting declared open.
Secretary advised that 20 proxies were received: 16 Supply Class, 3 Demand Class, 1 Representative Association Class.
1. AGM 2004 Minutes
Motion (moved TS, seconded David Thompson): Approve the minutes of the AGM 2004. Carried.
2. Report from the Chair on auDA Activities and Progress
Report delivered by the CEO (Attachment A).
3. 2002-2003 Audited Accounts
Motion (moved TS, seconded AusRegistry): Accept the audited 2004-2005 accounts. Carried.
4. Resignation from Board of Retiring Directors.
Larry Bloch (Supply), Kim Davies (Demand), Peter Nissen (Rep Assoc) and Josh Rowe (Demand) resigned from the Board. LB, KD and PN did not stand for re-election.
TS thanked LB and PN for their service to auDA.
TS acknowledged KD as a founding director of auDA and thanked him for playing a significant role in the development of the Australian domain name industry.
5. Election of new Directors to the Board.
Election supervised by John Higgins, Hayes Knight.
a. Supply Class (1 position)
Nominees: Marty Drill, Brett Fenton
Elected: Brett Fenton
b. Demand Class (2 positions)
Nominees: David Goldstein, Josh Rowe
Elected: David Goldstein, Josh Rowe
c. Representative Associations Class (1 position)
Nominees: Roger Dean
Elected: Roger Dean
6. Other Business
There was no other business.
7. Close of Business
Meeting closed at 11.20am.
CEO's Report on auDA Activities and Progress, 2004-2005
The last 12 months have seen auDA commence and complete a wide variety of tasks as well as continue the day to day management of .au and the second level.
Last November and December, the Board approved the Name Panel and Competition Review Panel reports and auDA staff set about implementing the recommendations.
In February and again in September of this year AusRegistry reduced the price they charge registrars for com.au and net.au domain names by $5 and in May auDA dropped it’s domain name fee to from $7.50 to $5.50. This means that the auDA domain name fee has almost halved and the overall price to registrars for a com.au domain name has been reduced by 40% since the introduction of the new auDA managed regime in 2002.
In March we commenced the Registry tender process by publishing the draft technical specification for comment.
In April for the first time, we suspended a registrars accreditation. The dispute with that registrar went to mediation and was eventually settled when the registrar agreed to cease operations in .au.
In May we commenced the process of releasing the commercial geographic names. That process is still being finalised but current indications are that around $1,500,000 will be available to fund the Community Geographic Names organisation that auDA will set up to facilitate and approve applications for community geographic names. We anticipate that the organisation will be operational early next year with the names being launched shortly thereafter.
We have also spent considerable time and effort on security issues within .au and the second levels. These are constantly under review and we liaise frequently with various federal government departments and agencies.
The latter part of this year has also been taken up with the time consuming and all important Registry tender process. At the end of October we announced that AusRegistry was the preferred tenderer and I am delighted to be able to announce that auDA and AusRegistry have this morning signed the new Registry Licence Agreement.
The next 12 months are panning out to be equally hectic with a full auDA constitutional review scheduled as well as public consultations on the close and substantial connection rule.
Thank you.
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