On Sat, Nov 25, 2000, Don Cameron wrote:

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> They would like to register the domain australianexpatriots.com.au -
> Obviously they would like the .au extension because they are proud
> Australians and would like to promote this fact to all and sundry - they do
> not want a .org because they are not a formalised organisation... and in
> fact they are to a degree commercial in nature, because one of their aims is
> to financially support Aussies overseas facing difficulties - however they
> cannot register an Australian Business name (none of them are in Australia
> and they do not do business in this country) - they cannot form an
> Australian Association for the same reasons - the "motivators" for this are
> Aussies mostly based in New York and London. Obviously they do not have an
> ABN. Perhaps the only thing they could do would be to register as charity,
> however even this is very difficult for them under the current Australian
> Charitable Collections Act.

Ok, this sounds more like something suitable for org.au, rather than com.au .
I don't know about you, but australianexpatriots.com.au sounds like a
company which we expatriots (and yes, I am one living in Amsterdam..)
can order vegemit and timtams from!

So my answer to this is to apply for either .org.au or .asn.au .

Personally, I don't see why .com.au even entered into this domain name.
.com is meant to be "company", right ?



Adrian

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