On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 04:52:13PM +1000, Ron Stark wrote:
> I can think of a mere handful of bank.au domains - anz, cba, commonwealth,
> qld, westpac, boq, queensland, suncorp, bendigo, city, citi and so on.  Then

Plus hundreds of credit unions?

> come the grey areas over which disputes would inevitably arise from each of
> the competing "legitimate" registrants:  lending.bank.au, finance.bank.au,
> cheap.bank.au, friendly.bank.au, local.bank.au, regional.bank.au,
> credit.bank.au, community.bank.au, farmers.bank.au, your.bank.au,
> online.bank.au, internet.bank.au and a whole lot of others.

The policy of the bank.com.au, just like the policy of the .museum
and .areo, will probably prevent you (and everybody else) from
regestrering them.

> But wait ... there's more!  I do newsletters for a certain bank as part of
> my business.  I then qualify to register newsletter.bank.au, because there's
> already a close or substantial connection.  I also resell domain names
> therefore I qualify for domains.bank.au.  Oh - websites, too, which gives me

These too.

Edwin

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