>What is wrong with qld.com.au, sa.com.au, nsw.com.au, law,com.au, >fish.com.au ? Then you could have fred.fish.com.au - Freds Fish Shop ! > In specific terms - an ISP in Adelaide (other than us - rats) already registered sa.com.au before the com.au policy was changed to specifically prohibit registrations of this type at this time. In general terms - because if we encourage our customers to understand the merits of web search engines and global directory systems, then just maybe we'll help the mythical average Internet user understand that using the DNS as a directory is a broken concept that won't ultimately scale. Yes, I know that in practice people don't yet care about this point - it just makes me feel better to make it. Simon --- Simon Hackett, Technical Director, Internode Systems Pty Ltd 31 York St [PO Box 284, Rundle Mall], Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia Email: simon§internode.com.au Web: http://www.on.net Phone: +61-8-8223-2999 Fax: +61-8-8223-1777Received on Thu May 15 1997 - 13:39:16 UTC
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