Anthony,

I think that if the news article is true, then the idea behind it has good
intentions. However, in reality there are a lot of .com.au domain names that
are unavailable because they are geographic locations. These include
dollar.com.au, as Dollar is a town in Victoria. There are more examples of
situations where a company has a name that is close to a town name, or even
a surname.

The policy should be broadened to allow companies that fulfill the .com.au
criteria to get those "geographical" .com.au domains also.

Chris and others on the auDA Board - can this be put on the agenda for
consideration?

Len

----- Original Message -----
From: "TV Fugly Awards" <awards&#167;fugly.com.au>
To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [DNS] Geographic Domain Name Proposal


> I think that the Geographic Domain Name's are fine as long as it is
heavily
> restricted. I also think the .law.au and .med.au extensions are fine too.
> Other than that I am really against an further extensions which will
dilute
> and lessen the strength of the .au namespace.
>
> Anthony
>
> > From: "James Pearce" <james.pearce&#167;zdnet.com.au>
> > Reply-To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
> > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:37:22 +1000
> > To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
> > Subject: [DNS] Geographic Domain Name Proposal
> >
> > auDA's New Names Advisory Panel has recommended eight new second-level
> > domain names based on the state and territory names. I'm a bit surprised
> > nothings made it to the list yet. Below is a link to a story on the
subject
> > (yes, I wrote it), and below that is the press release.
> >
> >
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20269087,00.ht
> > m
> >
> >
> > auDA Panel recommends new geographic 2LDs - state/territory.au
> >
> >
> >
> > Melbourne, 15 October 2002 - auDA's New Names Advisory Panel has
recommended
> > that auDA create eight new second level domains (2LDs) for Australian
states
> > and territories - act.au, nsw.au, nt.au, qld.au, sa.au, tas.au, vic.au,
> > wa.au
> >
> >
> >
> > The Panel commends the proposal developed by the One City One Site
(OCOS)
> > working party, which is aimed at reserving geographic names for use by
the
> > relevant community.
> >
> >
> >
> > The proposed domain structure is placename.state/territory.au - for
example,
> > bathurst.nsw.au or ballarat.vic.au
> >
> >
> >
> > Use of the new domain names would be restricted to community website
portals
> > that reflect community interests, such as local business, tourism,
> > historical information, special interest groups, and cultural events.
> >
> >
> >
> > Public comments received to date have demonstrated strong support for
the
> > proposal, including from the Online Council of Australian Government IT
> > Ministers.
> >
> >
> >
> > The auDA Board has asked the Panel to undertake one more formal public
> > consultation before submitting its final recommendations. The Board is
> > concerned to ensure that the Australian Internet community has advance
> > notice of, and opportunity to comment on, what will amount to a
significant
> > change to the Australian DNS.
> >
> >
> >
> > The deadline for comments is Tuesday 5 November 2002.
> >
> >
> >
> > More information is available at
> > http://www.auda.org.au/policy/panel-newname-2002
> >
> >
> >
> > -ENDS-
> >
> >
> >
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