To point things in a completely different direction, rather than moving 
to the model of direct registration of .au domains, which in effect 
closes the .au namespace to any further 2LDs, I think it makes far more 
sense to open the .au namespace up even further by introducing more 2LDs.

For example, a model based on industry classification - i.e. 
name.industry.au

For example:
- anz.bank.au
- abc.tv.au
- mmm.radio.au
- bigpond.isp.au
- telstra.tel.au / telstra.telco.au
- johns.plumbing.au

The greater the number of 2LDs and the more specific they are, the more 
open the .au namespace is, the greater the room to grow and more 
importantly, the fewer IP issues and domain conflicts. There is no 
conflict between xyz.bank.au and xyz.plumbing.au but there is when both 
want xyz.com.au

Andrew


Josh Rowe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 05:58:30PM -0700, David Goldstein wrote:
>
>   
>> Australia has one of the highest (maybe .ca is higher) registrations of .com domains in the world per capita. What are the reasons for this? I assume there are several, but it could be there are some reasons that have had more of an impact.
>>     
>
> Here are statistics based on the top ten countries who register .com domain names:
>
> Country		.COM per capita
> -------		---------------
> Hong Kong	20.34%
> United States	12.94%
> Australia	 6.20%
> Canada		 6.12%
> United Kingdom	 3.74%
> Germany		 3.45%
> France		 2.00%
> Spain		 1.58%
> Japan		 0.56%
> China		 0.15%
>
> Country		ccTLD per capita
> -------		----------------
> Germany		13.36%
> United Kingdom	 9.90%
> Australia	 4.28%
> Canada		 2.58%
> Hong Kong	 1.93%
> France		 1.31%
> Spain		 1.27%
> Japan		 0.72%
> United States	 0.41%
> China		 0.14%
>
> These statistics will be in the next version of my paper together with the sources I used.
>
> If anyone else has any further empirical evidence for or against opening up .au then please share it with me.
>
>
> Josh
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