List,

Forwarded copy of reply to personaly reply.

Incidentally; I'd never buy an 'xxx.au.com' domain for the reason that it
*is* owned by an individual. However, that doesn't make it illegitimate.

Reprehensible as the practice is, and as repulsive as they are, fax-spams
do not make subdomains names illegitimate or a scam either. I haven't
personally received an email spam from NetRegistry but if/when I do
they'll know about it :P

Regards,

Saliya

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:03:42 +1000 (EST)
From: Saliya Wimalaratne <saliya&#167;hinet.net.au>
To: Dominic Main <dominic_main&#167;start.com.au>
Subject: Re: [DNS] why the focus on ING?

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Dominic Main wrote:

> Dear Saliya,
> 
> you do not own xxx.au.com
> it is a canonical domain
> its just like www.au.com

um; yes; if they sell you the domain, then you own it.

You don't own 'au.com' ; same way you don't own 'com.au'; but you *do* own
the bit you pay for.

> au.com is owned by Larry Bloch
> 
> if he sells it to someone, that person is not obligated by any
> regulations whatsoever to do the right thing by you and every single
> crap.au.com domain will vanish.

The terms of the contract under which you paid for 'xxx.au.com' will still
be binding to the new party.

> All I am saying is that it CAN happen, but not with a legitimate
> domain name.

There's nothing that is more (or less) illegitimate about xxx.au.com than
any other domain name. The namespace is owned by an individual (the owner
of the .au.com domain); but that does not make xxx.au.com illegitimate.
Sorry, but that's the way it is.

> I know its hard to accept it when you have been scammed but, its OK,
> it happens to all of us.
> 
> We just need to identify the scam and get rid of it.
> 
> Wouldn't you agree?

No. You still haven't presented any convincing argument as to why
'xxx.au.com' is not a legitimate domain name - and I doubt that you will
be able to (because it *is* a legitimate domain name).

As to whether *I* would register an xxx.au.com domain name - well, I
wouldn't. But that doesn't make the subdomains illegitimate or a scam.

Regards,

Saliya


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