Well, I think your opinion is wrong.

Companies and organisations are already confused enough about which 2ld
to join (org vs asn, com vs net (or both)), but adding new ones.... what
is that actually supposed to achieve?

Is it simply another revenue stream for the registrars? or is it for the
good of the Australian internet?  I cant see how confusing people who
are joining the internet, and those already there is going to help.

What will more domains do? It will do exactly what happened with the
release of the new tld's... it sent people on a mad rush to get the best
names possible.... and that is simply a benefit to the registrars
ONLY... not to companies feeling they need to go and spend money to
reserve their *marks or risk having to get into litigation down the
track.

I mispoke in my previous email where I said:

>create:
>.info.au
>.biz.au

>open:
>.conf.au
>.id.au

Because info.au already exists.....

Can Australia deal with the inclusion of .biz.au?   perhaps... many
more? shop.au, web.au, blah.au? I doubt it... 

Creating these would simply help the business plans of the registrars
and no one else.

...Skeeve


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saliya Wimalaratne [mailto:saliya§hinet.net.au] 
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:45 AM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: RE: [DNS] New 2LD Proposals (to date)
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> 
> > How complex does this really have to be?
> > 
> > Is Australia going to go stupid and register other domains 
> like .web.au
> > .shop.au .music.au .tourism.au .church.au .club.au tm.au ? 
> They simply
> > are not needed and only dilute the usefulness of the web for finding
> > information.
> 
> Skeeve,
> 
> Apart from the additional (IMO, negligible) load on DNS servers; more
> varied domain names will make absolutely no different to the relative
> difficulty of finding resources using the appropriate search engines.
> 
> More *resources* requiring indexing will slow searching down; but this
> will happen regardless of whether the new resources are 
> placed under new
> domain names or existing ones.
> 
> It is the *content* that counts; not the domain name that it is
> distributed from.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Saliya
> 
> 
> 
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