MessageFrom: Dennis List 
Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 1:47 PM
To: 'jo.lim@auda.org.au'
Subject: FW: Restriction on Geographic domain names under review

Hi Jo,

I received this message from Netregistry. I'm contacting you to voice my opposition to this plan. 
To allow commercial ownership of placename domains could cause many IP problems. I can see it 
benefiting only the lawyers who take briefs for the large number of parties who will be aggrieved. 

There is also a moral aspect, in that placenames are effectively the common property of all those 
who live or work in a place, or have other geographical associations with it. To allow only one of 
those persons (or perhaps an outsider, e.g. domain name speculator) will to some extent remove 
rights from all other stakeholders in that placename.

regards,
Dennis List
School of Marketing
University of South Australia