Ah! A logical approach- how refreshing Tony Paterson Tel: +61 3 5989 7691 This email (including all attachments) may contain personal information and is intended solely for the named addressee. It is confidential and may be subject to legal or other professional privilege. Any confidentiality or privilege is not waived or lost because this email has been sent to you by mistake. If you have received it in error, please let us know by reply email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. This email is also subject to copyright. No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the written consent of the copyright owner. Any personal information in this email must be handled in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Emails may be interfered with, may contain computer viruses or other defects and may not be successfully replicated on other systems. We give no warranties in relation to these matters. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email purportedly sent by us, please contact us immediately. From: §dotau.org On Behalf Of Tony Owen Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 2:14 PM To: .au DNS Discussion List Subject: Re: [DNS] Australia registers more .au than .com domains Well done Marty ... I agree with your take. Cheers Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: Marty <mailto:marty§domaincandy.com.au> Drill - Domain Candy To: '.au DNS Discussion List' <mailto:dns§dotau.org> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [DNS] Australia registers more .au than .com domains If .au opens up (and .net.au etc is kept, with com.au getting .au (for example)), what is to stop companies from becoming 2LD Registrars. So if "Bob" registered bank.au, then he could effectively run his own 2LD. Some might argue that it is a free market, so be it. However, it fundamentally devalues the existing 2LDs and can cause confusion in the marketplace (as au.com did). If we open up .au, then 2LDs need to be scrapped. The challenge with that is, how do you reconcile who gets abc.au (for example). One argument might be that the Broadcaster gets abc.tv.au instead. Which in my opinion is fundamentally flawed and it takes back to the current situation (abc.net.au). The question about 2LDs needs to be resolved with a clear strategy before opening up to register at .au level, regardless of the market demand. If companies can run tv.au (for example) as a 2LD and basically sell sub domains, then .net.au and .org.au become irrelevant. The suggestion below of more 2LDs has more relevance than simply opening up .au for registration based upon market demand or a better country brand that divorces us from the .com. However will more 2LDs do it? Maybe not, as it is clear that with only 900,000 names registered (compared to the millions at TLD), demand has not outstripped supply. Meaning we have enough .com.au (and other 2LDs) to sustain market growth, which would mean the need to open up 2LD is not clear. It becomes a circular argument. We need to identify how we are going to handle the effective opening up of 2LD (as a result of registering in .au) and the conflict of which company with seemingly equal rights, gets the .au, and then the discussion can take form. Cheers Marty _____ From: dns-bounces+marty=domaincandy.com.au§dotau.org [mailto:dns-bounces+marty=domaincandy.com.au§dotau.org] On Behalf Of info§enigmaticminds.com.au Sent: Friday, 29 June 2007 12:24 PM 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 _____ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ _____ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.12/878 - Release Date: 28/06/2007 5:57 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cynosure.com.au/mailman/private/dns/attachments/20070629/d945c57b/attachment.htmReceived on Fri Jun 29 2007 - 20:28:35 UTC
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