Hi Ron, Given .at's example, with only 3.04% of domain names registered at co.at, 96.23% at .at and .73% at org.at, I'd suggest very few companies bother with protecting their brand by registering at both levels. Of the 3.04% registering at co.at, there is an even smaller number who have the .at name as well. I would suggest to, that under the current rules, it might be pretty hard for most people to register a domain such as cocacola.plumbing.au. What be the close and substantial connection, if this rule was to apply? David ----- Original Message ---- From: Ron Stark <ronstark§snapsite.com.au> To: .au DNS Discussion List <dns§dotau.org> Sent: Friday, 29 June, 2007 1:35:22 PM Subject: Re: [DNS] Australia registers more .au than .com domains Extrapolating your suggestion, and the Bulgarian example from Josh, there are two probable consequences: - Registrars (and, by definition, Registries) would enjoy another bonanza as businesses rushed to protect their brands (or predators rushed to grab unprotected brands). - The value and relevance of a domain name as a brand protection device would diminish. Using Bulgaria as an example: if I wanted to protect the brand of a new business I'd need to register 37 domain names all at once. It would be far cheaper to have a single 2LD and increase the price of a domain name by 2000%. And how would MS or Coke respond if I wanted to register Microsoft.cobbler.au or coca cola.plumbing.au, given that this suggested model would allow me to do so? Ron Stark From: dns-bounces+ronstark=snapsite.com.au§dotau.org [mailto:dns-bounces+ronstark=snapsite.com.au§dotau.org] On Behalf Of info§enigmaticminds.com.au Sent: Friday, 29 June 2007 12:24 To: .au DNS Discussion List Subject: Re: [DNS] Australia registers more .au than .com domains 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 -- http://josh.id.au/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo!7 Mail has just got even bigger and better with unlimited storage on all webmail accounts. http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/unlimitedstorage.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cynosure.com.au/mailman/private/dns/attachments/20070629/438a6a87/attachment.htmReceived on Fri Jun 29 2007 - 03:43:42 UTC
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