Is it too late to complain now?
its not really a case of complaining, the situation is often this:
a .com.au got registered, someone else came late to the game and registered the .net.au, the .com.au drops and someone gets it........... now here's the twist, its not just domainers that register dropped .com.au's , i registered a drop domain BEFORE i knew anything about dnt,drop,NF .......... the domain just "double dropped" and i found it one night and went YIPPEE.
i can prove this.
but if the .net.au was registered before i hand reg'd the .com.au who wins out ? the .net.au owner didn't know about it as they wouldn't have not registered it ?
its just a mess about to happen.
so , i can't register the .net.au , someone else has it, and come the end of the day WHO decides who gets the .au ? oohhh, i'll tell you ! someone that has a financial benefit that's who and the plans are already in motion IMO.
as others have stated, its been a longgggggggggggggg time that the .com.au has been the dominate extension and it seems only fair that the .com.au ( if it happens ) get the .au , i'm presently putting together an email to send to my clients briefly detailing the potential cost of a change to .au
draft : " what it means to you, you pay more money ONGOING in the future, stationery may need changing, adverts, brochures, business cards, signage etc "
so i think everyone can stop talking about "its only another $20 "
tim