Reply to: [1]Re: [DNS] domain names Thank you for your message. I am on leave until 19 July 1999. Your message has been fowarded to my secretary, Robyn Keen who will take the appropriate action with it. Please call her on 9364 6300 if you want to give her any more information. -------------------------------------- Date: 7/7/1999 4:47 PM To: dns§waia.asn.au From: Stephen Baxter > CONCLUSION- The australian web should be set up as a virtual > Australia with virtual states and virtual roads. If I want to find > something in my local area then I want to be able to find it easily not > spend hours searching through rubbish. That is why people use domain > names to do their searches because it cuts out all the rubbish quickly. > Put rules on the number of domain names you can own. Don't allow people > the ability to link domain names to one location perhaps. The only > reason their is such a fuss about generic domain names is that (1) you > can have them in the states (2) some are getting away with it while > others cant. Leave domain names up to market forces but put in rules > reduce as much as possible large business domination and finally keep it > within Australia I have to sort of agree there with what was said. What I can never believe is that a domain name is a mapping that can be used very easily to find anything sensible using ordinary logic ! If, under some perfect world I was to get the domain name iia.sa.au (am I the Internet IIA or the Institute of Internal Auditors), what does that mean? The DNS should not be looked at as a way to help users find their around the Internet but as a way to turn 203.1.1.1 into something easy to remember - catchy even. This then means that it becomes a valid marketing tool. As such it should be under the same rules for business as is getting a business name - you can have it if nobody else does ! In real life if you go and register McDonalds.whatever.au then you have probably invited yourself a whole heap of legal trouble. This is not an allocation issue - why should the delegation authority care if you are "allowed" use that name as a trading name or whatever ! After doing the DNS forum thing and then ADNA one thing occured to me and that is that those who argue the most against change (more TLDs or chaos as they call it) under the au namespace are the ones who have the rights to sell in that space already or already have secured what they believe to be "sexy" domain names. Open it up and be done with it ! Hell - the government auctions spectrum - why can't sa.au get auctioned and the funds be put to runing australian registries, root nameservers and other such things. Lets create ten hierachies with yearly lease fees that could include qld nt wa sa tas vic nsw act web nom tm -- Stephen Baxter CCNA SE Network Access/Big Networks Australia CHECK OUT OZBYTES http://www.ozbytes.net.au Sound Bytes - 50 artists hosted and growing phone : +61 8 8221 5221 222 Grote Street fax : +61 8 8221 5220 Adelaide 5000, Australia -- This article is not to be reproduced or quoted beyond this forum without express permission of the author. You don't know who really wrote it. 238 subscribers. Archived at http://lists.waia.asn.au/list/dns (dns/dns) Email "unsubscribe" to dns-request§waia.asn.au to be removed. RFC822 header ----------------------------------- RECEIVED: from SF_Database by POP_Mailbox_-1280754099 ; 07 JUL 99 17:26:37 UT Received: from GOSPEL.IINET.NET.AU by mail.hdy.com.au with SMTP (QuickMail Pro Server for MacOS 1.1.2); 07-Jul-1999 17:26:31 +1000 Received: (from list§localhost) by gospel.iinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA26640; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:47:33 +0800 Resent-Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:47:33 +0800 X-Authentication-Warning: gospel.iinet.net.au: list set sender to dns-request§gospel.iinet.net.au using -f Delivered-To: waia-dns§waia.asn.au Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:17:28 +0930 (CST) From: Stephen Baxter <steve§senet.com.au> To: Antony <dns§waia.asn.au> cc: Cybersuburb gordon russell <cyber§picknowl.com.au>, david smither <CoopersAle§hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [DNS] domain names In-Reply-To: <3782EB0D.128D4112§box.net.au> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907071556120.21454-100000§helpdesk.senet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"tO40l3.0.4W6.4WlWt"§gospel.iinet.net.au> Resent-From: dns§waia.asn.au Reply-To: dns§waia.asn.au X-Mailing-List: <dns§waia.asn.au> archive/latest/22 X-Loop: dns§waia.asn.au Precedence: list Resent-Sender: dns-request§gospel.iinet.net.auReceived on Wed Jul 07 1999 - 15:27:31 UTC
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