|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Jon Lawrence [mailto:jon§jonlawrence.com] 
|> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:47 PM
|> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
|> Subject: RE: [DNS] RE: auDA to consider new names for .au
|> 
|> 
|> so who gets magpies.footy.au?
|> 
|> Wests (NRL)?
|> Collingwood (AFL)?
|> Port Adelaide (SANFL)?
|> etc
|> etc?
|> 
|> I tend to agree with you that creating new 2LDs adds very little
value to
|> the .au domain space.  Lets give id.au a go and see how it
fares...much
|> the same as the recently released me.uk I suspect (ie noone wants
them).
<SNIP>

I disagree.  There is a need for some additional 2LD's.  Not to put
anything against id.au, I think having some geographical names under
(state).au at a fixed cost would be beneficial and meet some consumer
demand.  What I don't want to see is hostnames under such 2LD's costing
the same sort of price as *.com.au hostnames.  I would like to see a
reasonable price charged for (city).(state).au and a fixed price of say
$5AUD a year on any sub-domains under them as a condition of
registration.  The (city) level should have strict criteria for the body
acting as the registry on the 3LD.  For instance the body should offer
registrations in a particular format that would be consistant across all
the 3LD's and at a set price.

Will most likely expand on this in a submission to AuDA.

As for other 2LD's, given the use of com.au etc, if the geographical
names were introduced, there may not be any need to expand in other
directions for some time.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.