Jean-Christophe 

Would you happen to be another Alternate DNS enthusiast (and for clarity I
mean TLD's not supported by the "legacy" Root Name Servers?

I ask because I noticed http://www.nic.wine  in your signature, and it
looked like a signature from another cyberfantasy crackpot.

And if your primary interest is along the lines of Adam Todd's AURSC, why
are you interested in .AU?

Larry

At 19:50 22/06/98 +0200, you wrote:
>> The .AU domain contains about 1 host and 11 domains. It has a serial
>> number which implies it hasn't been updated for over a month, and I'd say
>> that would have only been for a change in a conf.au domain (which are
stored
>> in the same zone file), and I'm sure the only changes which would have been
>> made in .AU in the past few years would have been NS changes - if any.
>> 
>
>How do you pretend to be active on the Net, with so few names ?
>
>Aren't there any Australian company, or organization, which would want
>to 
>have its site under its .AU name ?
>
>Even if there are far less names in .FR than in .COM, we, in France,
>have lots of .fr names. Owned by french companies (big & small) and
>french subidiaries of foreign companies :
>
>http://www.ibm.fr
>http://www.lotus.fr
>http://www.apple.fr
>http://www.coca-cola.fr
>...
>
>You'd benefit from a .AU zone really competitive...
>
>-- 
>Jean-Christophe PRAUD - LUDEXPRESS  http://www.ludexpress.com
>http://www.nicwine.net     http://www.nic.wine     3:213 WINE
>Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu n'gah Bill R'lyeh Wgah'nagl fhtagn
> 
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