] >   Fred.com.au is already taken but FREDs fish still wants to use the name
] >   fred.xxx.au
] >   I think this is often a poor solution as both fred.com.au and
] fred.xxx.au now
] >   get their identity confused in the eyes of the end consumer.
] 
] Yes! Just look at bigpond.com and bigpond.com.au. :-)

Oh!  I thought bigpond.net was their main address. :-)
At least there is no sign of bigpond.net.au, so there are probably
only three domains for Big Pond.  (Not counting big-pond.com, which
looks like an Alaskan SportFishing company.)
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