I am confident that people who strongly want new 2LDs created will
put in submissions proposing those 2LDs (and try to get on the panel).

What is not so clear is whether anyone who doesn't want new 2LDs
created will bother to put in a submission along those lines.
It's often hard to get people to argue for the status quo.

] Companies and organisations are already confused enough about which 2ld
] to join (org vs asn, com vs net (or both)), but adding new ones.... what
] is that actually supposed to achieve?
] 
] Is it simply another revenue stream for the registrars? or is it for the
] good of the Australian internet?  I cant see how confusing people who
] are joining the internet, and those already there is going to help.
] 
] What will more domains do? It will do exactly what happened with the
] release of the new tld's... it sent people on a mad rush to get the best
] names possible.... and that is simply a benefit to the registrars
] ONLY... not to companies feeling they need to go and spend money to
] reserve their *marks or risk having to get into litigation down the
] track.
] 
] I mispoke in my previous email where I said:
] 
] >create:
] >.info.au
] >.biz.au
] 
] >open:
] >.conf.au
] >.id.au
] 
] Because info.au already exists.....
] 
] Can Australia deal with the inclusion of .biz.au?   perhaps... many
] more? shop.au, web.au, blah.au? I doubt it... 
] 
] Creating these would simply help the business plans of the registrars
] and no one else.
] 
] ...Skeeve
] 
] 
] > -----Original Message-----
] > From: Saliya Wimalaratne [mailto:saliya§hinet.net.au] 
] > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:45 AM
] > To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
] > Subject: RE: [DNS] New 2LD Proposals (to date)
] > 
] > 
] > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
] > 
] > > How complex does this really have to be?
] > > 
] > > Is Australia going to go stupid and register other domains 
] > like .web.au
] > > .shop.au .music.au .tourism.au .church.au .club.au tm.au ? 
] > They simply
] > > are not needed and only dilute the usefulness of the web for finding
] > > information.
] > 
] > Skeeve,
] > 
] > Apart from the additional (IMO, negligible) load on DNS servers; more
] > varied domain names will make absolutely no different to the relative
] > difficulty of finding resources using the appropriate search engines.
] > 
] > More *resources* requiring indexing will slow searching down; but this
] > will happen regardless of whether the new resources are 
] > placed under new
] > domain names or existing ones.
] > 
] > It is the *content* that counts; not the domain name that it is
] > distributed from.
] > 
] > Regards,
] > 
] > Saliya
] > 
] > 
] > 
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 David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au>  URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
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