From: Steve at Digitronics 
Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2007 1:59 PM
To: jo.lim@auda.org.au
Subject: Submission: draft Recommendations, Sept 2007

Hello Joe,

I support all of the Panel draft recommendations made.

With regard to Issue 3:
1/ auDA must strongly resist the temptation to allow the .au domain to become an open 
trading market.
2/ If it becomes imperative to allow domain name trading then I would support the 3a 
proposal with some suggested enhancements.
3/ auDA should allow for an appeal mechanism if a genuine buyer believes a seller is 
holding a name to ransom. A domain name is not the seat of brand value, rather a trade 
mark or registered trading name is, and that should be the seat of any sale of rights 
profit. A domain name should simply accompany such a transfer of rights with a reasonable 
associated cost, rather than being the seat of it.
5/ Paragraph 7.30 should be applied to the 3a proposal if automation mechanisms can 
reasonably be put into place to support it.
6/ The paragraph 7.30 cap value should be small and no larger than 50. This should not 
disadvantage genuine name transfers, even for large corporations restructuring.

Regards,

Steve Harding.