shags38
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Most reading this will know how new I am to domaining and how I have gone like a bull at a gate with 3D domains ........... and how I have been less than a good listener. Well just like a good red wine I am maturing (real bloody quick after the better half has realized how much I have spent on a bunch of words and how much I have received in return ... ouch !!)
As part and parcel of me entering this like a bull at a gate I did not do any real homework ........ I had too many dollar signs in my line of sight to see properly.
My .AU 3D names - 480 odd of them - only yesterday did I become aware that I cannot sell them for 6 months !! (and no, I have not worked up the courage to tell the missus)...... WTF do AuDA think they are ?? (W = who). Surely it is a restriction of trade from a legal viewpoint - name me anything, anything else that you rightfully own lock stock and barrel that you are not permitted to sell.
I have seen a few posts in here in the past about AuDA but they didn't mean much to me because of the fact I had my head buried in the sand. The sand is irritating my eyes so I have pulled my head out and I am not a very happy camper I can tell you !!! WTF dictates to me whan I can sell something I own !!! I recall seein a post about paying $22 to become a member and then being entitled to vote at meetings - I will have to ferret around for it and do something about it.
WHO THE F**K do they think they are??!! Restriction of trade Jan.
In my opinion, here is one way that they are screwing up the business of a lot of domainers with the ABN bullshit policy. How many people out there do you think would actively get involved in AFFILIATE MARKETING if they could get a domain name without having to register as a business ????? ....... Gazzillions. In particular they will be at each end of the age and workforce scale - senior high school students and retirees. The former because they are internet / computer savvy and hungry for some money to buy a car or whatever but can't get a part time job at maccas or the local pizza shop because there aren't any left. They all have computers at home, and nowadays at school, many of them are "given" laptops. In the hours they are not studying, including certain hours at school, these 16,17,18 year olds could be setting up and maintaing a basic website, even a minisite to start with - hey as I said most are computer savvy and some are friggin geniuses so amongst their friends they will find someone who can help them with SEO.
The other end of the scale is the Retirees or those not far from that stage and out of work (like me) - many in both cases would either need or want to make some money and they have nothing but time, lots of it, time, time time to work on making affiliate marketing work. Most in this bracket would need a lot of help to get their site up and running and the occasional help in upgrading it. Many in this bracket would do it pretty much for the enjoyment and for something to get involved in as against like me wanting to be a biliongazillionaire.
NEITHER OF THESE SECTORS can do this with AU sites unless they register a business - bingo, like a smart targeted nuclear weapon 97.6% of the population in those categories have just been wiped out. Gerry Harvey is laughing his tits off !! a whole bunch of competition shackled by archaic regulations. So there is 97.6% of this population base we CANNOT SELL OUR DOMAINS TO !!!
Do I sound angry ???????
Read this book ... "How to stifle small business in an global economic environment that relies ever moreso on the fluidity of SME's".... author = AuDA.
I am sure that the ACCC would love to get their teeth into the legitamacy and moral validity of such a restriction of trade.
I am now too worked up to continue typing - someone else take over please.
Mike
As part and parcel of me entering this like a bull at a gate I did not do any real homework ........ I had too many dollar signs in my line of sight to see properly.
My .AU 3D names - 480 odd of them - only yesterday did I become aware that I cannot sell them for 6 months !! (and no, I have not worked up the courage to tell the missus)...... WTF do AuDA think they are ?? (W = who). Surely it is a restriction of trade from a legal viewpoint - name me anything, anything else that you rightfully own lock stock and barrel that you are not permitted to sell.
I have seen a few posts in here in the past about AuDA but they didn't mean much to me because of the fact I had my head buried in the sand. The sand is irritating my eyes so I have pulled my head out and I am not a very happy camper I can tell you !!! WTF dictates to me whan I can sell something I own !!! I recall seein a post about paying $22 to become a member and then being entitled to vote at meetings - I will have to ferret around for it and do something about it.
WHO THE F**K do they think they are??!! Restriction of trade Jan.
In my opinion, here is one way that they are screwing up the business of a lot of domainers with the ABN bullshit policy. How many people out there do you think would actively get involved in AFFILIATE MARKETING if they could get a domain name without having to register as a business ????? ....... Gazzillions. In particular they will be at each end of the age and workforce scale - senior high school students and retirees. The former because they are internet / computer savvy and hungry for some money to buy a car or whatever but can't get a part time job at maccas or the local pizza shop because there aren't any left. They all have computers at home, and nowadays at school, many of them are "given" laptops. In the hours they are not studying, including certain hours at school, these 16,17,18 year olds could be setting up and maintaing a basic website, even a minisite to start with - hey as I said most are computer savvy and some are friggin geniuses so amongst their friends they will find someone who can help them with SEO.
The other end of the scale is the Retirees or those not far from that stage and out of work (like me) - many in both cases would either need or want to make some money and they have nothing but time, lots of it, time, time time to work on making affiliate marketing work. Most in this bracket would need a lot of help to get their site up and running and the occasional help in upgrading it. Many in this bracket would do it pretty much for the enjoyment and for something to get involved in as against like me wanting to be a biliongazillionaire.
NEITHER OF THESE SECTORS can do this with AU sites unless they register a business - bingo, like a smart targeted nuclear weapon 97.6% of the population in those categories have just been wiped out. Gerry Harvey is laughing his tits off !! a whole bunch of competition shackled by archaic regulations. So there is 97.6% of this population base we CANNOT SELL OUR DOMAINS TO !!!
Do I sound angry ???????
Read this book ... "How to stifle small business in an global economic environment that relies ever moreso on the fluidity of SME's".... author = AuDA.
I am sure that the ACCC would love to get their teeth into the legitamacy and moral validity of such a restriction of trade.
I am now too worked up to continue typing - someone else take over please.
Mike