Busy time on the .au domain name front.

New Registry, new Registrars.

And now the first meeting of the New 2nd level domains Policy Panel.


Some of the submissions appear to be pretty sketchy - others quite detailed.
A quick summary of the proposed new 2LDs and their sponsors appears to be:



Sponsor              New 2LDs Proposed

Patterson            Proposal to create several new 2LDs
Lim                  aom.au (adult oriented material)
Pappas               biz.au, info.au
Catholic Church      catholic.au
ANCA                 club.au
Tearle               conf.au
Law Council          law.au
Kumria               med.au (medical), emb.au (embassies), conf.au
Pharmacy Guild       pharmacy.au
AVCC                 research.au
AVCC                 uni.au, university.au
Aust Retailers Assn  retail.au
3 different entities 3 different submissions (with some commonality) all
proposing geographic 2LDs - e.g. nsw.au, qld.au


See http://www.auda.org.au/policy/panel-newname-2002/ for the full
submissions.



Regards, Mark

Mark Hughes
Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
effectivebusiness§pplications.com.au
www.pplications.com.au
+61 4 1374 3959