dare i say " i told you so " and hardly anybody paid attention to my threads on this subject, NOW, you are all up in arms about it !
here's how i see it ! if you want to start reading my opinion now ? and its all been said in above comments.
1) they planned this and it was never NOT going to happen, its a money grab, its disgusting IMO
2) they put the right people in the right places to make it happen
3) its NOT going to help any "normal people" , if you came late to the party then all the cake is eaten
4) yes it is going to cause chaos
5) they put on sale .net.au for $1 before they started the committee, TACTIC, horrible tactic
6) they NEVER promote membership to owners of domain names ( ma and pa owners with 1 domain ), thus they never have enough voting members to VOTE themselves OUT.
7) nobody except the the registras and auda will benefit, its simply an added cost of business for no reason.
8) sydney.net.au , whoever you are you should have no right for the .au IMO, once again a money grab by auda to have 2 people fighting over it and as i have said previously the process will get shifted to a registra so there are no ties to auda and i'd HONESTLY bet my own life on ............. well, i'm not going to say exactly but bromwyn ......... comes to mind !
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now here is what i'm going to do:
i'm going to draft a letter and send it to all my clients, i am going to give them the link for submissions and i am going to get them to send it through, and i am going to record all submissions.
as there are 3 million domains registered and 3 auda members
i suggest you all do the same.
this is just BS, obscure at the moment.
they are just giving us enough to justify that they are telling us, but not enough to get to the nitty griity.
"soon, maybe, almost, future" is really what they are saying, its presently a setup so they can say "they did their best and this was the result" BS, its already decided
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and i am bias , WHY should my high value domains be now in jeopardy ? WHY should i have to compete against a .net.au owner that has a bloody parked domain ?????
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why are we causing confusion in the online space ?
dubbodentist.com.au and someone else has dubbodentist.au , stupidity, money grab
tim