Thank you Glen for this one. This has my 100% support. I would think that it
would somehow also apply to test.au, example.au etc.

Are there any reasons why these should not be reserved in this way? Except
for the hide-bound purist competition freak, I suppose. :)


Cheers


Narelle

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Glen Turner wrote:

> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsind-test-tlds-10.txt
>
> reserves some top-level domain names for test and
> documentation purposes.  These are:
>
>       ".test" is particularly recommended for use in testing
>       of current or new DNS related code.
>
>       ".example" is particularly recommended for use in
>       documentation or as examples.
>
>       ".invalid" is intended for use in online construction
>       of domain names that are sure to be invalid and which
>       are obviously invalid.
>
>       The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically
>       defined in host DNS implementations as having an A
>       record pointing to the
>
> It goes on to say:
>
> The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also
> currently has the following second level domain names
> reserved which can be used as examples.
>
>       example.com
>       example.net
>       example.org
>
> As this seems an excellent idea for documentation purposes,
> can I suggest that the names
>
>       test.XXX.au
>       example.XXX.au
>       invalid.XXX.au
>
> never be assigned by any XXX.au registry.  XXX is, of
> course, .com.au, .edu.au, .net.au, etc.
>
> It could also be wise to exclude lcoalhost.XXX.au from
> allocation, if only because of the confusion that such an
> assignment could cause.
>
> Naturally, if the proposal is carried (however that is done
> now and in the future), it should appear in the policies for
> assigning names in each of the XXX.au domains.
>
> Thank you,
> glen
>
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Narelle

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