Actually I think .biz reeks of ICANN's spinelessness.  If they'd been willing
to give the internet community what it wanted it would have taken on Image
Online Design and approved .web


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>From: "Rowe, Joshua" <Joshua.Rowe&#167;auspost.com.au>
>To: "'Dns List (dns&#167;auda.org.au)'" <dns§auda.org.au>
>Cc: 'Grant Bayley' <gbayley&#167;ausmac.net>
>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:03:47 +1000
>Subject: [DNS] RE: auDA to consider new names for .au
>
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>Forwarded with Grant's permission.
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>Josh
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Grant Bayley [mailto:gbayley&#167;ausmac.net] 
>Sent: Wednesday, 24 April 2002 5:35 PM
>To: Rowe, Joshua
>Cc: Link List (link&#167;www.anu.edu.au)
>Subject: Re: [LINK] auDA to consider new names for .au
>
>
>On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Rowe, Joshua wrote:
>
>> auDA to consider new names for .au 
>> http://www.auda.org.au/about/news/2002042402.html
>
>[snip]
>
>> auDA is considering whether there is sufficient public support for the
>
>> creation of some new 2LDs. For example, should auDA follow the example
>
>> of ICANN and create a new "biz.au" or "name.au"? Another option might

>> be to create new 2LDs for specific sectors of the community, like 
>> "law.au" for lawyers.
>
>I'll bite on this particular point.
>
>Anyone else think that ".biz" reeks of "1999 dot com excesses"?
>
>For this reason alone I'd assert that it's worth ignoring.
>
>> auDA is particularly interested in receiving proposals for the 
>> existing info.au 2LD, which is currently inactive.
>>
>> "Now that the .info gTLD has commenced operation, we think there is 
>> real potential for info.au to become a very popular domain among 
>> Australian Internet users," said auDA CEO, Chris Disspain.
>
>This is mostly personal opinion, but the existing "new" TLDs have gotten
>a
>bad name for themselves, and mostly because of the process that was followed
>to bring them into operation.  Firstly, the fact that preference was given
>to those wanted to "reserve" / stake a claim to an existing name meant
that
>it was abused heavily by anyone that could convincingly lie about the
>trademarks/service marks etc that they held.  Secondly, the fact that
>spammers picked up the baton and ran with it for .biz/.info/.name meant
that
>by the time the domains eventually became available, there was such
>confusion and latent anger about having received 500 unsolicited email
>offers to "reserve" domains in the new TLDs, nobody cared about them.
>
>More personal opinion.  Who really wants a domain ending in .name?
>"john.smith.name"  That's got about as much appeal as a warm, mouldy rag.
>Ditto on ".per" as a 2LD/TLD.  At the very least, an opening up of .id.au
>without the 3LD requirement for an Australian animal ought to cater for
the
>demand for personal domain names.
>
>As Chris has hinted at above, the only TLD/2LD's that strike me as having
>any appeal are those that can be immediately used by organisations that
are
>part of a body of professionals or perhaps a club (.law, .club (?)),
>organisations that perform some historical, information aggregation or
>archiving function (.museum, .archive (?)), or provide a clear and obvious
>source of information on a particular topic (.info).
>
>Grant
>
>
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