My mantra - there are perhaps 10% of businesses entities that are
eligible to have a .com.au domain name, who actually have one.  Coming
up with a new variant on 2LD's is tantamount to suggesting that devising
a new business type (say CC as well as Pty Ltd) is suddenly going to
increase the number of businesses registered.

It's a nonsense, of course.

Equally, there wasn't exactly a rush to register .id.au's either.

The core issue is the need to give potential registrants a (valid)
reason to have a domain name in the first place.  Introducing new name
types does nothing except degrade the whole domain name business.

Ron Stark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Pay [mailto:jasonpay§au1.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 1:46 PM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: Re: [DNS] Nomination for auDA board.
> 
> 
> >> What are your opinions on opening up the name space?
> >
> >fewer restrictions. ability to register xyz.au and more 2LD's
> >
> >Vic
> 
> I would agree that there should be fewer restrictions, the impacts 
> reducing restrictions would have to be taken into account though.
> 
> Ability to register xyz.au would be great but is it a good idea on a 
> logistical level? If someone registered xyz.au and then sold 
> thousands of 
> subdomains, then the xyz.au company goes under, all the sub 
> domain people 
> effected would be jumping over the auDA. With this in mind, 
> if there was 
> the facility to register xyz.au the requirements would have 
> to be very 
> high, close to ausregistry level id expect.
> 
> More 2LD's? If a proposal is made and it addresses all policy 
> criteria and 
> I agree with the proposal I'd vote for when it came up at the board 
> meeting. IMO there's no reason not to add more 2LD's, I guess if the 
> demand is there, new 2LD's will be created.
> 
> In the same ballpark though, I would push the 'power of 
> attorney' issue.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Jason Pay
> Midrange Administrator: AIX LINUX 
> IBM Global Services
> jasonpay§au.ibm.com
> +61 (0)2 61242137
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Deus Ex Machina <vicc&#167;cia.com.au>
> 26/09/2003 01:16 PM
> Please respond to dns
> 
>  
>         To:     dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        Re: [DNS] Nomination for auDA board.
> 
> 
> 
> Jason Pay [jasonpay&#167;au1.ibm.com] wrote:
> > >what exactly are your views? where do you stand on opening up the 
> > >name
> > spaces for instance?
> > >
> > >Vic
> > 
> > Can you clarify what you mean by "opening up the name spaces"
> > are you referring to current restrictions on namespaces?
> > 
> > In any case, its not just my opinion that counts I would solicit
> comments 
> > from this list and wherever else I can find them, and try 
> and push the
> > consensus view.
> > I would have to make judgments based on where the 
> opinions/views were 
> > coming from, and I would do so without bias.
> > 
> 
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