Re: [DNS] geographic 3rd level domains for .com.au (fwd)

Re: [DNS] geographic 3rd level domains for .com.au (fwd)

From: Stephen Baxter <steve§senet.com.au>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:48:31 +0930 (CST)
What about

qld.au
nsw.au
sa.au
wa.au
etc etc

for state based legal entities


> I sent this yesterday but it hasn't appeared on the list after nearly 24
> hours, so I'm resending.  Appologies if anyone gets this twice.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Hi all.  Has anyone looked at this as a prospect.  .com.au (like .com) is
> one of the busiest domains and yet it is one of the few which lacks
> geographic sub-domains (eg, qld.gov.au,nsw.edu.au,etc).  I've recently had
> to register a .com.au domain which wasn't quite what I wanted, when a
> qld.com.au domain would have done well.
> 
> .com.au is filling fast and this seems like a suitable way to increase
> the available namespace without too much hassle (and it is consistent with
> other aussie TLDs).
> 
> Thoughts, comments, flames?
> Cheers,
> 	-Robert
> 
> --Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert&#167;blake.humbug.org.au
>                                 robert.brockway&#167;uq.net.au
> 			 WWW:   http://www.oc.humbug.org.au/~robert
> 			 Founder of HUMBUG (http://www.humbug.org.au)
> 
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