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

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

From: Anthony Hill <ahill§connect.com.au>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:38:20 +1000
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:56:18AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
| 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?

I think it is an exellent idea. It increases the usable namespace dramatically.

Regards,

Anthony Hill
Received on Mon Jul 12 1999 - 07:38:44 UTC

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