Edited snips from the whois records are vaguely interesting :-)

Leni.

   Organization-Name: Lawyers.Com
    Domain-Name: lawyers.com.au
    Tech-Contact: Magna Data Hostmaster  (MH278-AU)
hostmaster§magna.com.au
    Created: 13-Mar-97

   Organization-Name: Internet Business Centres
    Domain-Name: business.com.au
    Tech-Contact: David Michael Cook  (DC22-AU)  cook§business.com.au
    Updated: 1-Mar-96

    Organization-Name: Barristers' Clerking Services Pty Ltd.
    Domain-Name: barristers.com.au
    Tech-Contact: Ocean Internet System Admin  (OOSA200-AU)
hostmaster§ocean.com.au
    Created: 22-Sep-97

   Organization-Name: Corporate Profile Pty. Ltd.
    Domain-Name: corporate.com.au
    Tech-Contact: Magna Data Hostmaster  (MH278-AU)
hostmaster§magna.com.au
    Created: 8-Jul-97

Leni.

ramin wrote:

> Professor Peter Gerrand
> I know you are out there somewhere.  I dont have your email here at
> home
>
> (my wife just had a baby folks!) but this is certainly amazing:
>
> business.com.au? wow!!!!!
> barristers.com.au? double wow!!!
> lawyers.com.au? wow wow!
> corporate.com.au? Holy Smoke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> someone once said that a racket is a racket you are not part of....
> well, i dont want much, just www.consult.com.au
>
> i am truly blown away. Peter, please exaplain
>
> Paul Montgomery wrote:
>
> > ramin wrote:
> > > Are these recently allocated domain names?
> > > we applied for consult.com.au (given that we are well established
> as
> >
> > > www.consult) and got turned down because it was a common name.
> > > i cannot believe that these domain names are recent.
> >
> > Straight from the horse's mouth on the Melbourne IT site:
> >
> > Organization-Name: Corporate Profile Pty. Ltd.
> > Domain-Name: corporate.com.au
> > Created: 8-Jul-97
> >
> > Organization-Name: Internet Business Centres
> > Domain-Name: business.com.au
> > Updated: 21-May-96
> >
> > Organization-Name: Barristers' Clerking Services Pty Ltd.
> > Domain-Name: barristers.com.au
> > Created: 22-Sep-97
> >
> > Name: lawyer.com.au
> > No AUNIC entry exists for this name.
> >
> > Organization-Name: Lawyers.Com
> > Domain-Name: lawyers.com.au
> > Created: 13-Mar-97
> >
> > --
> > Paul Montgomery, Net journalist for PC Week, lives like a JavaBean.
> > mailto:monty§apnpc.com.au Tel: +61-2-9936-8793 Fax: +61-2-9955-8871
> > ___________________________________________________________________
> >   "Hell and heaven, not after death but now! Depression, all mental
> >    illness, was the sinking. And the other... how was it achieved?"
> >               The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick