<div dir="ltr"><br><div>I have to admit I'm fairly surprised that no-one has any comments about the impending changes to the Australian system of domain names...</div><div><br></div><div>I suppose when customers start asking/complaining about weird new characters under .au or missing <com|net|org|edu|id|asn|gov> and land in your helpdesk queues you'll do something...</div><div><br></div><div>still happy to talk</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Narelle</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Narelle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank">narellec@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>All<div>auDA has published an issues paper on behalf of the Policy Review Panel that is recommending the set of policies that should apply to the introduction of direct registrations under .au</div><div><br></div><div>Should you be interested in attending or making a submission (deadline 4 March) you should register for the upcoming forums:</div><div><a href="https://auda.org.au/policies/panels-and-committees/2017-policy-review-panel/registrant-policy-issues-paper/" target="_blank">https://auda.org.au/policies/<wbr>panels-and-committees/2017-<wbr>policy-review-panel/<wbr>registrant-policy-issues-<wbr>paper/<br clear="all"></a><div><br></div><div>I suggest you look at the various issues raised such as:</div><div>- should we introduce internationalised domain names under .au?</div><div>- should there be specific reserved words withheld from .au?</div><div>- should any existing 2LDs be retired? Should there be more?</div><div>- should there be priority for existing .au domain name holders?</div><div>- what should the cut off dates be for any priority?</div><div>- ???</div><div><br></div><div>This will probably have an impact on your systems and on your customers, so you may wish to express a view, or to encourage them to express their views.</div><div><br></div><div>best regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_6448351855858551978gmail_signature"><br><br>Narelle<br><a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank">narellec@gmail.com</a></div>
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