Re: [DNS] ABC: Australia supports global cyber-squatting regulations

Re: [DNS] ABC: Australia supports global cyber-squatting regulations

From: Nick Andrew <nick§zeta.org.au>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:09:46 +1100
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 09:35:23PM +1100, Geoff Huston wrote:
> At 05:34 PM 1/31/00 +1100, Nick Andrew wrote:
> >emu? wombat? come on ... geek.id.au is urgently needed!
> 
> bad move - all of a sudden you overload the name space with
> extraneous baggage and connotation -

Looks like a case of horses for courses to me. One man's extraneous
connotation is another's self-identity. I'd rather be identified with
geeks than with wombats.

> and lets face it - geek.id.au is just sooo passe  :-)

No doubt cooler names are waiting to be delegated, as soon as somebody
thinks of them. From my point of view, an id.au sub domain just isn't very
attractive while the parent components are so, well, nondescript.

Nick.
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