From: Martin Chambers 
Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2001 5:09 PM
To: jo.lim@auda.org.au
Subject: Submission for discusion papers

Hi Jo,

The clause in the .AU DISPUTE RESOLUTION POLICY : Note 5, states;

Note 5: "primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the 
domain name registration to another person" 

The UDRP requires a complainant to show that the registrant intended to sell the domain 
name to the complainant itself, or to a competitor of the complainant. The DRWG considers 
this to be unnecessarily restrictive, and has expanded the scope of this clause to 
encompass the situation where the registrant, in bad faith, intends to sell the domain 
name to another person, whether or not that person is directly connected with the 
complainant. 

This rule should apply to all names that are registered with direct connections to 
specific registered business name, but should exclude names that are acronymns (eg 
abc.com.au) or generic terms (eg. printers.com.au) that were registered in good faith.  
I would like the option to be able to purchase common generic names when they become 
available in the .com.au namespace. At the moment there is a high chance that many 
people will not be able to register the generic names desired (if for instance the 
lottery method is employed), and there must be an opportunity for other Australians 
to obtain the generic names or acronyms that are common to many Australian businesses.

I have (in a previous email) included many decisions from the international dispute 
boards (Icann and Wipo), stating that purchasing and selling generic domain names is 
not a bad faith activity.  Can you please include these examples in this submission.

Thank you for your interest.

Martin Chambers - Internet Jive.