I recently blogged that "Flexibility is required for .au domain registration, renewal periods", after my participation in the Australian Domain Administrator (auDA) 2010 Names Policy Panel.

I stressed particularly that the 2-year minimum/maximum domain registration period is contrary to the needs of business, and I pushed for the auDA Board to allow 1 year to 5 year registrations of .com.au domain names to bring Australia in line with other countries.

This discussion, as well as the dozen or so more that the 2010 auDA Names Policy Panel analysed is part of a Discussion Paper we released for public discourse. Please click here to read.

You are also encouraged to take part in a survey, where the domain name registration period is one of a number of questions you are able to respond to, thus become part of the Australian domain name policy setting process.

Please click here and complete the survey BEFORE 21 January.