This is not as simple as that, As a reseller, I would love to be governed by auDA, because I am still suppling a (more or less) a government domain name license to the registrant! No body in business wants to be governed by his supplier My registrar is my supplier and as much as we can we endeavour to protect, each others business interest that is all, I have to watch my relationship with them (the registrar) as they with us (the reseller)!. I know what the registrar are bound by before auDA, If I do any thing wrong, auDa can simple tell my registrar or all the registrar(s) to discontinue or not to deal with me any further or at all, or even introduce a penalty, a fine, something or what ever!!. My thinking leads me to this, auDA must realise, if it doesn't already that it is again, an Internet governing authority in the land, and we all answer to them directly in regards to fairness, policy, supply or demand!!!. PLEASE This must be clearly understood, and added to the auDa policy with regards to all us, who are the registrant, reseller or the registrar!. Cheers Marco Botros Spirit Servers http://spiritservers.com.au ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin§melbourneit.com.au> To: <dns§lists.auda.org.au> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:57 PM Subject: RE: [DNS] Proposal for policy change Hello Richard, > > I would like to see something like the following system adopted: > > 1. The Registry enforces domain name eligibility and policy > compliance in software and alerts the registrant (and/or > their nominated intermediary, as appropriate) of upcoming > domain expiry. > All trivial stuff which can be done automatically at > practically zero incremental cost. > > 2. Anyone with the technical expertise to interface with the > registry system can become a registrar. Being a registrar is > now a much simpler process (with the registry applying > policy) so the fees can be revised downwards to more > reasonable levels. My opinion is that the fee could something > like a $2000 accreditation fee plus a pre-payment of a few > thousand against registrations/renewals to weed out tiny > registrars (but even tiny registrars could exist if they saw > a commercial advantage in it). > You are describing the current system - except you want to change the accreditation criteria for a registrar. auDA recently carried out a review of this criteria, and I am sure they will again in future. The existance of resellers is a matter of market dynamics. It is purely up to resellers whether they choose to work through a registrar or become a registrar. Just as a registrant can choose to operate through a reseller, registrar or registry (by becoming a registrar). The important part of the new regime, is that resellers are required to comply with the same policies and code of conduct as registrars. So as Jon Lawrence has pointed out - exercise your choice and become a registrar if you wish. It is a simple business decision. If a registrar does not provide any value as you claim then become a registrar. Or if a reseller provides no value, then go direct to the registrar. I see no reason to limit the number of choices. It seems to me that you are arguing for the removal of resellers from the system, rather than the reverse. Regards, Bruce Tonkin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://www.auda.org.au/list/dns/ Please do not retransmit articles on this list without permission of the author, further information at the above URL. (368 subscribers.)Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 00:00:00 UTC
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