Rick Welykochy wrote:

> (*) *.au domains will go on forever ... they are THE sanctified
>     TLD's in Australia

Like many others I have a gut feel that some domains are "official"
while others aren't.  It might be interesting to elaborate on what
this means.

Rick points out that no fees need to be paid to renew the domain.
That seems to be a necessary condition, but not sufficient.

There needs to be a chain of delegation authority from IANA.  Again,
necessary, but not sufficient.

Continuing to mull...

Leni.