>> What about the biz.au and acn.au
>> that been floated around - either they have been rejected or haven't even
>> been tried [...]
>
>Michael Malone and Simon Hackett can answer definitively, but my
>understanding is that kre has neither accepted nor rejected the proposal
>for biz.au.
>

this is indeed my understanding of the current situation. There is no
answer I have seen from kre to the question "can we 'do' biz.au", but I'm
also not sure that he was, ever, specifically asked - because the proposal
came into existence after the ADNA discussions began, and it is essentially
in limbo until either ADNA exists and is capable of making a decision on
it, or ADNA explodes into a puff of <something> and we just go back to
asking kre directly (if he cares).

Look, biz.au was, and is, partly a straw-man to push the point that the
lack of competition in com.au is a bad thing. That statement is still true
and is at the heart of some of the issues around why ADNA (or something)
needs to exist.

Simon
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