You can’t be serious auDA!

This is what I call a token gesture from auDA. An invite on a Saturday night to some selected “domain investors” to attend a zoom meeting with the CEO Rosemary Sinclair on Monday (today).

Quite frankly, I also think it is rude and disrespectful. It is the week leading up to Christmas, and many of us are away or otherwise engaged.

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.au Direct Registrations – Snippet 1

Welcome to the first of many “snippets” about the impending introduction by auDA (the Australian domain name regulator) of .au direct registrations in March 2022.

Many people I have spoken to believe them to be no more than an income generating exercise for the supply side of our domain ecosystem e.g. auDA itself; then Afilias (the registry); then all of auDA’s registrars.

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