I don't think there is much evidence to support a relationship that says
the section 7.4 rules discourage hoarding "entrepreneurs".  These rules
must be there for some other reason.

Leni.

ramin wrote:

> Since I have not heard from Skeeve in a long time, I just wanted to
> ask
> one question about section 7.4.  why are we so concerned about
> banking.com.au or beer.com.au or gordon.com.au (2071 i think)?
> wouldn't we want to promote lots of activity and competition on
> the Internet?  and if profiteers and entrepreneurs paid a bucket and
> got themselves a whole lot of names, wouldn't they either sell them
> to someone who would use it or something like that? the idea being
> that
> eventually someone would have to promote the site name in online and
> traditional media to drive traffic and recognition?
> why are we so scared of free markets (trademarks exempted)?
> laugh if you will but this still does not address one of the concerns
> people (real people, ie business people) had with the old system...
>
> >
> > 7.4.1 Be at least two characters long
> > 7.4.2 Contain only alphanumeric characters (i.e. a-z, A-Z, 0-9) and
> > hyphens
> > 7.4.3 Start and finish with an alphanumeric character
> > 7.4.4 Not be an Australian place name which has a postcode.
> > 7.4.5 Be directly derived from the legal name of the commercial
> > entity;  the domain name can only be derived from the characters in
> > the full legal name of the commercial entity in the order in which
> > they appear. Additional characters that do not appear in the full
> > legal name of the commercial entity can not be used.
> > 7.4.6 Not be a generic word describing products (goods or services),
>
> > industries, industry sectors, or organisations.  Examples of
> > unacceptable domain names include: beer (product), banking
> > (industry), industrial (industry), company (organisation type).
> > Generic phrases comprising of two or more generic words are allowed.
>
> >
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