Re: [DNS] What's in a name? Too little, says panel

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian§creative.net.au> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:20:18 +0800 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 09 2017 - 22:00:04 UTC

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000, m&#167;rk.net wrote:
> The only solution is to get a grip and open up the *.au namespace. This whole .com.au, .net.au thing is a crock. No one cares about .com.au. The only reason a company will get companyname.com.au is if (a) they already have companyname.com and they want the .com.au for consistency or (b) they couldn't get  companyname.com.
> 

Just my 2c here, but I think that is a load of crock. Have you *seen*
the state of .com ?

Don't confuse the solution to mis-managed DNS space to completely opening
it up. All of a sudden a company will focus on selling as many domain names
as possible, and soon you end up with lawsuits over domain ownership,
domain name squatting..

I normally don't speak up about DNS issues, but you'd think that people
would learn from history..

Adrian

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