Personally with the id.au namespace I would like to see them available
very cheaply. I can't really see much demand unless they are $20 or less
a year.  

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Mark Hughes [mailto:effectivebusiness§pplications.com.au] 
|> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:04 PM
|> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
|> Subject: RE: [DNS] New 2LD Proposals (to date)
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> > In the case of id.au, a cheaper price will have an impact. 
|> The ability 
|> > to get a 'life-long' (in reality domain name comes up for 
|> license for 
|> > every 2 years) would be appealing in this case and even 
|> more appealing 
|> > if the price is 'affordable'.
|> 
|> Cheaper price & permanent address / email has been available 
|> to individuals for yonks.  Just register your own personal 
|> domain name in a global TLD such as .com, .net, .org.
|> 
|> To support an assertion that making id.au available cheaply 
|> will automatically create demand, one would have to have 
|> some evidence that  a third level domain under id.au is 
|> going to be more attractive than a second level domain under 
|> .com, .net, or .org.  If anyone thinks they have any such 
|> evidence (meaning 'evidence', as different from 
|> 'speculation', or 'hope'), I'd be interested in seeing it.
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> > Consider the shear novelty factor of having john§smith.id.au.
|> 
|> Of course, consumers aren't going to be able to have 
|> firstname§surname.id.au (with very rare exceptions) because 
|> the vast majority of people have the same surname as other 
|> people.  So once the first 10,000 or so id.au domain names 
|> are registered, the other 19,000,000 consumers will have to 
|> settle for something else.
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> There are two advantages of a gTLD over id.au for personal 
|> domain names.
|> 
|> 1. You get to register at the second level, rather than at 
|> the third level. 2. There are no artificial restrictions on 
|> what you can have.
|> 
|> By point 2 I'm referring to the restrictions that say your 
|> id.au domain name must equal, be a contraction of, or be 
|> derived from or include one or more words from, the 
|> Registrant's personal name.
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> So....................
|> if we take a completely random example :)
|> 
|> Cyrille Lefevre could apply for cyrille.id.au, or 
|> lefevre.id.au, but not for fish.id.au or gingerfish.id.au, 
|> even if ginger fish is what he prefers to use as his email & 
|> identity on the internet.
|> 
|> I know lots of people who use words other than their own 
|> name for their personal domain names.  One I know uses the 
|> name of the best horse he ever rode (he was a jockey 20 
|> years ago).  Domain names are an opportunity for people to 
|> create their own identity from scratch - I'm not at all 
|> convinced that everyone wants a web address/email address 
|> equivalent, or even close to, to their own name.
|> 
|> I'm damned if I know why id.au has these restrictions.  
|> Yeah, I know I sound like a broken record when I point out 
|> yet again how poor was  the report of the Name Policy Panel 
|> that came up with this stuff.  But I'm gonna do it anyway :)
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Regards, Mark
|> 
|> Mark Hughes
|> Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd 
|> effectivebusiness§pplications.com.au
|> www.pplications.com.au
|> +61 4 1374 3959
|> 
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