A self managed super fund is not a bank, I would have thought that was 
pretty obvious.

In a similar manner a podcast does not make you a radio station 
(.radio.au), uploading youtube viedos does not make you a tv station 
(.tv.au), etc.

If you're not legitimately in the industry, you wouldn't be eligible to 
register the domain name, just like you can't register .gov.au or .edu.au


Ron Stark wrote:
> OK.  So IBM, BP, Price Waterhouse Coopers and little old me run a 
> credit union for my staff.  Woo Hoo - I can register snapsite.bank, then.
>  
> Josh (sorry Josh :-)) possibly runs his own self-managed super fund.  
> So he gets josh.bank.au.  Real clear and easy to administer ...........
>
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>     *From:* dns-bounces+ronstark=snapsite.com.au§dotau.org
>     [mailto:dns-bounces+ronstark=snapsite.com.au§dotau.org] *On Behalf
>     Of *info§enigmaticminds.com.au
>     *Sent:* Saturday, 30 June 2007 17:36
>     *To:* .au DNS Discussion List
>     *Subject:* Re: [DNS] Australia registers more .au than .com domains
>
>     I totally agree with Edwin.
>
>     Further to this, I have always said that with industry specific
>     domains, you must be within that industry. Therefore only a bank
>     could register a domain using the .bank.au extension.
>
>     This already applies for domain extensions such as .gov.au and
>     .edu.au, so this concept is nothing new. In effect, the .gov.au
>     and .edu.au domains are examples of industry specific domains. Do
>     you see any untoward activities in these namespaces? Any phising?
>     Any cyber-squatting or domain speculation?
>
>     As for conflicts, there's would be far fewer as it is limited to
>     each industry. For example only plumbers of the name Joe would be
>     interested in joes.plumbing.au whereas every Joe from every
>     industry would be interested in joe.com.au.
>
>
>     Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>>     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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