Corporate StationeryFrom: Scott Campbell 
Sent: Tuesday, 17 September 2002 6:26 PM
To: 'jo.lim@auda.org.au'
Cc: Jill Henry
Subject: Support for .conf.au

 

 
Dear Ms Lim
 
The Perth Convention Bureau has recently been advised that the 2nd level domain, 
.conf.au, which is intended to be used by conference organisers for the 
promotion of conferences, could be removed by auDA. We in turn wish to show our 
support for the use of the conf.au domain and also wish to highlight potentially 
untapped opportunities within the meetings industry. 
 
The meetings industry in Western Australia alone is estimated to be worth $630 
million dollars and with increased infrastructure over the next few years it is 
forecast to grow further. 
 
In the meetings industry the use of websites for promoting conferences is still 
highly undeveloped, however, with creative 2LD's such as .conf.au the potential 
for their use within the industry is highly viable and potentially profitable. 
 
We currently are unaware of any Western Australian organisations who sell or 
promote the use of websites specifically to conference organisers, and so 
potential opportunity within this sector still exists. We alone have records of 
almost 400 up and coming conferences in Western Australia, including over 50,000 
people expected to attend conferences over the next twelve months. 
 
We as an organisation welcome initiatives that helps the meetings industry grow 
and therefore support the use of such 2LD's, suggesting that with the right 
marketing they could potentially become a valuable media for promoting 
conferences.  
 
Yours sincerely
 
Scott Campbell
Database Manager
Perth Convention Bureau