There are around 320 000 .com.au's registered, out of some 3.5M ABNs registered, ergo 10% penetration of the available market. TLDs are saturated - there are so many .COMs that it's near impossible to come up with a new name. They therefore have no option but to add new TLDs. Here in Australia we have such a low penetration that it's folly (imho) to come up with more 2LDs - particularly in the expectation that it will somehow increase demand. My point, though, is purely a business one - why expend effort to create a tiny closed market when there's already a huge open one already waiting to be developed. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: Deus Ex Machina [mailto:vicc§cia.com.au] > Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 3:38 PM > To: dns§lists.auda.org.au > Subject: Re: [DNS] Nomination for auDA board. > > > > you are not talking in facts but opinions. my impression is > there is quite a bit of name clash which spils over into > .net.au and .com, while I couldnt quantify it is a lot more then .005% > > but thats not the point, the point is more choice is a good thing. > gtld are not sitting still they are adding tlds which is > taking $$s out of australia. > > Vic > > Ron Stark [ronstark§snapsite.com.au] wrote: > > ... to which the obvious question is what proportion of the > available > > market do they represent? It's simply not good business to > invest in > > developing a market for .005% when there is 90% to be had. > > > > Ron > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Deus Ex Machina [mailto:vicc§cia.com.au] > > > Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 3:20 PM > > > To: dns§lists.auda.org.au > > > Subject: Re: [DNS] Nomination for auDA board. > > > > > > > > > what about business whose prefered domains are taken? > > > > > > Vic > > > > > > Ron Stark [ronstark§snapsite.com.au] wrote: > > > > 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§cia.com.au> > > > > > 26/09/2003 01:16 PM > > > > > Please respond to dns > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To: dns§lists.auda.org.au > > > > > cc: > > > > > Subject: Re: [DNS] Nomination for auDA board. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jason Pay [jasonpay§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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------------- > > > > > List policy, unsubscribing and archives => > > > > > http://www.auda.org.au/list/dns/ Please do not retransmit > > > > > articles on this list without permission of the > > > > > author, further information at the above URL. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > > ----- > > > > List policy, unsubscribing and archives => > > > http://www.auda.org.au/list/dns/ > > > > Please do not retransmit > > > articles on this list without permission of the > > > > author, further information at the above URL. > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------- > > > List policy, unsubscribing and archives => > > > http://www.auda.org.au/list/dns/ Please do not > retransmit > > > articles on this list without permission of the > > > author, further information at the above URL. > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- > > List policy, unsubscribing and archives => > http://www.auda.org.au/list/dns/ > > Please do not retransmit > articles on this list without permission of the > > author, further information at the above URL. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > List policy, unsubscribing and archives => > http://www.auda.org.au/list/dns/ Please do not > retransmit > articles on this list without permission of the > author, further information at the above URL. >Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 00:00:00 UTC
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