From: Sharron Marks   
Sent: Friday, 21 August 2015 19:50 
To: info@auda.org.au 
Subject: ABC Interview

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Which leads me to another issue about the introduction of the AU URL.
 
I can see how this is on the agenda but I also do not see much in the way of it being a positive thing for 
people who already own at .com.au  
 
People are conditioned and have been for years that most domain names in Australia are .com.au  It will 
take a long time for people to adapt to this change and I suspect most businesses if they opted for the .au 
instead they would still need to keep com.au for some time and therefore pay for two domains and 
forwarding of the .com.au to the au. 
 
I know the choice to keep com.au would exist - and my guess is most people would stick with what they 
have.
 
New business are likely to be interested. Old business are likely to want to have both for safe keeping. 
Which one they use - well who knows.
 
Another down side to this is that it is likely to create duplicate business names. In my industry for example 
when you try and come up with a business name you find most of them are already taken. Again this is 
where having a registered business name as part of the criteria would go a long way in controlling 
possible duplicates. I am probably not explaining myself overly well. Sorry.
 
Anyway just thought you might be interested in the feedback.
 
Kind regards
Sharron