On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Dassa wrote:

> |> -----Original Message-----
> |> From: Jon Lawrence [mailto:jon§jonlawrence.com]
> |>
> |> Well at least registrations of other TLD and ccTLD suffixes are
> prohibited
> |> in the new domain spaces so this sort of thing will not be replicated
> in
> |> .info, .biz etc...
>
> Is it covered under the .au name space?  I haven't checked.

Quite some time ago, the name 'com.net.au' was registered, and the
operators of such put in such amusing names as 'www.playboy.com.net.au'
(not a DNS wildcard) to point to their own p0rn site.  This was later
changed to (I think) 'comm.net.au' to avoid the previously described
behaviour.

I believe various AU domain policies do have an explicit policy against
registering the common TLDs within a .au 2nd level domain
({com,net,org,asn,id}.au).

--==--
Bruce.

I speak for myself.