From: Peter Love 
Sent: Monday, 27 March 2006 8:18 PM
To: jo.lim@auda.org.au
Subject: Domain monetisation and the close and substantial connection rule
Dear Sir/Madam

The domain monetisation rule appears to be unnecessarily restrictive.
Australian companies do not always solely use .com.au names.
.Com, .Co.Uk, .De etc are commonly registered by companies within Australia. 

It is a good thing other countries do not apply so restrictive registration rules, the
disadvantages to Australian business would be substantial.

"Close and substantial" just limits the scope to which business can experiment
and test the online market. They can try and capture the traffic with domain 
registration or pay for it with Adsense etc., where Google is an international
company and Australian revenue is lost overseas.

Australian and international trade mark legislation provides protection for 
businesses and companies. 

AUDA could do well to examine the co.uk example of Nominet.  
Domain name use and registration is not self regulating and AUDA is certainly required but
some very restrictive rules like "domain monetisation" need revueing.

Regards
Peter