There has been some good follow up on this post below but as someone who has
dealt with categorization of information for many years let me tell you it
is not easy to develop even a mildly decent scheme when the number of
categories become large and the information being organized is quite
disparate - and more importantly you discover you need to put the same
entity in more than one category (often this is thrust upon you because the
entities activities span multiple categories).

 

Just try and look up something a bit unusual in the yellow pages to see what
I mean. So for my two cents worth you want a minimal number of 2LD's and
given the problems raised already it's too late to consider direct
registration of .au domain especially given the likelihood people will try
and create precisely the structure below but without any hope of a coherent,
consistent approach - and thus rendering the namespace a logical mess - not
one thing or another.

 

However not all is lost because even if this did happen - my final point -
and it was made in the first discussion we ever had on this list is that the
DNS is not a directory service. Now go to your nearest window, open it and
shout to the world "The DNS is not a directory service!"

 

The purpose of a domain name is simply to provide a static, human friendly
reference point to an IP address which can be found by the DNS system. The
whole notion that domain names should somehow be organized as some sort of
on-line equivalent of the yellow pages has always stuck me as quite
misguided.  

 

Yes we all want a catchy, easy to remember 'top of mind' name (like dare I
say clarity.com.au) but this not the same as trying to organize everything
around you into some sort of category based structured directory - with all
the failings previously mentioned.

 

If you think about it your domain name could be random numbers or characters
and the job of finding you - and everything one would possibly want to know
about you - would be much better done by a real directory service. The next
Google ...

 

 

Doug

 

 

 

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From: dns-bounces+doug=clarity.com.au§dotau.org
[mailto:dns-bounces+doug=clarity.com.au§dotau.org] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Friday, 29 June 2007 10:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [DNS] Australia registers more .au than .com domains

 

To point things in a completely different direction, rather than moving to
the model of direct registration of .au domains, which in effect closes the
.au namespace to any further 2LDs, I think it makes far more sense to open
the .au namespace up even further by introducing more 2LDs.

For example, a model based on industry classification - i.e.
name.industry.au

For example:
- anz.bank.au
- abc.tv.au
- mmm.radio.au
- bigpond.isp.au
- telstra.tel.au / telstra.telco.au
- johns.plumbing.au

The greater the number of 2LDs and the more specific they are, the more open
the .au namespace is, the greater the room to grow and more importantly, the
fewer IP issues and domain conflicts. There is no conflict between
xyz.bank.au and xyz.plumbing.au but there is when both want xyz.com.au

Andrew


Josh Rowe wrote: 

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 05:58:30PM -0700, David Goldstein wrote:
 
  

Australia has one of the highest (maybe .ca is higher) registrations of .com
domains in the world per capita. What are the reasons for this? I assume
there are several, but it could be there are some reasons that have had more
of an impact.
    

 
Here are statistics based on the top ten countries who register .com domain
names:
 
Country               .COM per capita
-------               ---------------
Hong Kong     20.34%
United States 12.94%
Australia      6.20%
Canada         6.12%
United Kingdom  3.74%
Germany                3.45%
France         2.00%
Spain          1.58%
Japan          0.56%
China          0.15%
 
Country               ccTLD per capita
-------               ----------------
Germany               13.36%
United Kingdom  9.90%
Australia      4.28%
Canada         2.58%
Hong Kong      1.93%
France         1.31%
Spain          1.27%
Japan          0.72%
United States  0.41%
China          0.14%
 
These statistics will be in the next version of my paper together with the
sources I used.
 
If anyone else has any further empirical evidence for or against opening up
.au then please share it with me.
 
 
Josh
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