what's your point, Stephen?  


>-- Original Message --
>Reply-To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:36:29 +1100
>From: Stephen Loosley <stephen&#167;melbpc.org.au>
>To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
>Subject: [DNS] registry business
>
>
>Hello there ..
>
>At 08:56 PM 14/03/2002, Rebecca Patrick wrote:
>
>> there's enough business out there for all of us. :)
>> Rebecca Patrick Internet Registry Pty Ltd.
>
>As much as one may regret getting involved in this
>DNS list nonsense .. (and I'd have serious concerns
>regarding any commercial involvement with a number
>of members of this DNS list) .. here's a recent IT news
>item which may be of some interest .. 
>
>--
>Melbourne IT Doubles its Dot Profits:  Helen Tobler 
>
>Melbourne IT registered one million top-level domain names - .com, .net
and
>.org - during the [2001 calendar] year, including 184,000 renewals.
>
>The .biz and .info domain names went live late last year, "we expect (.biz
>and .info) will pick up this year." 
>
>The .us and .name domains were going live in the next few months, [and]
There
>had been a lot of interest from the US in the .us domain name, he said,
particularly
>as the events of September 11 had heightened national pride. 
>
>Melbourne IT is the fifth largest domain name registrar in the world. 
>--
>
>Stephen Loosley
>School IT Teacher
>Vermont Secondary 
>
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