I think Jason's asking AuDA's WHY, not your WHY...

As in, the technical reason for deleting .au domains.

But I think from reading the AuDA post, that they would only be deleting

GENERIC domains WITH wildcards

i.e. both conditions must be met.

Wildcards on subdomains of your own are handy, and don't really annoy
anyone, but its people who INADVERTANTLY go to a domain and get caught
by a catchall DNS record.

Its effectively the equivalent of massive typo squatting, whereby a
browser searches through many combinations of domain extensions hoping
to find a match for you.

-Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: dns-bounces+sean.finn=ozservers.com.au§dotau.org
[mailto:dns-bounces+sean.finn=ozservers.com.au§dotau.org] On Behalf Of
Brenden Cruikshank
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:50 PM
To: .au DNS Discussion List
Subject: Re: [DNS] Use of wildcard resource records

Didn't I include why? The software we use isn't able to add "A" records
for
customers sub-domains.

There are legit purposes to sub-domains you know.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Backshall" <jbackshall&#167;staff.iinet.net.au>
To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <dns&#167;dotau.org>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [DNS] Use of wildcard resource records


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| > Does this mean that the 1200 or so domains we host with wildcard
| entries
| > could be deleted by auDA with 4 days notice?
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| Without wanting to start a shitfight - I'd be interested to know the
| technical reasons behind such a decision.
|
| Discuss!
|
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