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In this Issue:

• Featured Site - All Seasons Campervans
• Domain Name Registration SCAM
• Minchin to lodge NBN FOI
• $53m NBN study incomplete: Opposition
• Rudd sings broadband praise but numbers don't add up
• Quotes of the Day

Featured Site  

All Seasons Campervans

All Seasons Campervans have totally revamped their website with a resulting increase in traffic. Because of this success and incresed traffice the server bandwidth allowance had to be increased to accommodate. All in all, a great result...

Great Service, Great Vehicles, Great Prices

AllSeasons Campervans is a campervan, motor home and RV hire specialist. All of our campervans and motorhomes are regularly serviced and checked to provide you with the most comfortable and enjoyable campervan experience. All of our campers are late-model, come fully equipped with linen and utensils and are built catered to your needs. Thanks to our experience in camper conversions we produce all our own vehicles, giving us Australia's most unique and innovative fleet of campervans and motorhomes.

We also have a range of new and ex-rental campers for sale, or if you would like a unique vehicle built to fit your tastes, have a look at our range of campervan conversions options. Got a van of your own? We can turn it into something special! Visit the All Seasons Campervans website...

Domain Name Registration SCAM  

Be on the lookout for letters from Domain Registry of America or Domain Renewal Group

Their address on the letter shown as 189 Queen St Suite 209 Melbourne 3000 Australia, but you won't find anyone home...

This is a SCAM and known as domain slamming, send their notice to the shredder, bin or outhouse for later use...

From Wikipdeia:

The Domain Registry of America is an Internet domain registrar based in the Canadian province of Ontario best known for sending solicitations for business that resemble legitimate invoices.

In 2003, the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with the company for practices such as transferring domain registrations to their service under the guise of domain renewal, a practice known as domain slamming, and having hidden fees. Despite this action, the company still sends mass direct mail to consumers resembling invoices with "domain name expiration notice" in bold print. Targets for the company's mass mailings are known to be in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States with information obtained in violation of their ICANN registrar agreement.

The Australian Federal Government knows all about the problem, but, well, what can I say!!!!!

Some more reading on this subject:

Screw You, Domain Renewal Group

http://www.countingmypennies.com/2008/11/19/scam-alert-domain-renewal-group/

There is plenty more stories on Google...

NOTE If Engadine Web Services manages your domain names, only respond to our invoices...

Minchin to lodge NBN FOI  

The Federal Opposition has revealed it will file a freedom of information request Monday to attempt to retrieve the National Broadband Network expert panel and ACCC reports, as cross-bench senators consider whether they will support the Coalition's bid to stall NBN legislation.

A spokesperson for Minchin told ZDNet.com.au he intended to lodge the FOI request on Monday, the second relating to the reports, which Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has refused to publish on the grounds they contain commercial in confidence information.

ZDNet Australian May 2009. more >>>

How can you release documents with NO content??? ed

$53m NBN study incomplete: Opposition  

The Federal Opposition has criticised the government's plans to spend $53 million on its National Broadband Network implementation study, claiming the document would be flawed due to the lack of an included rigorous cost/benefit analysis.

In last night's budget the government revealed it would allocate a total of $53.2 million towards consultancy fees for establishing and implementing its $43 billion project.

The Opposition, however, has criticised the cost, noting the government had already spent $20 million on the first NBN tender process that was subsequently ditched.

ZDNet Australia May 2009. more >>>

Rudd sings broadband praise but numbers don't add up   

BEYOND dealing with the global financial crisis, nothing beats Kevin Rudd's attachment to high-speed broadband as proof of the Government's reform credentials.

The Prime Minister has even been telling businesspeople that he thinks his $43 billion fibre-to-the-home network will be seen as one of his great legacies to the country.

A national broadband fibre network was an essential part of the successful Rudd campaign strategy. Delivering on a now-vastly expanded and vastly more expensive version remains an article of faith within government.

The Prime Minister has even been telling businesspeople that he thinks his $43 billion fibre-to-the-home network will be seen as one of his great legacies to the country.

Ministers are positively lyrical talking about the productivity benefits and the social and economic revolution that universal access will produce.

Yet how all this will work commercially remains a puzzle to the market.

AustraliaIT May 2009. more >>>

There are still areas close to Sydney that only have access to the internet via dialup!!!! ed.

Quotes of the Day  

No man ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family." Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005

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