From: Jim Kellogg 
Sent: Friday, 23 March 2001 1:07 PM
To: jo.lim@auda.org.au
Subject: submission

Importance: High

Please include this submission:

The severe restrictions of the current name policy are forcing Australian internet 
businesses to buy names from overseas from virtually unlimited sources when they 
would have preferred a com.au name. This harms not only the local business due to 
the domain not being recognized as a Australian business but also costing the 
Australian government millions of dollars in lost GST for domain names and ongoing 
renewal. The overseas domain name providers are the only winners with the current 
policy.

Jim Kellogg