Re: [DNS] .au space proposal

From: Richard Archer <rha§interdomain.net.au> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:20:57 +1100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Fri Nov 21 2008 - 09:00:07 PST

At 20:05 +1100 21/11/00, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:

>   - State registered businesses are given businessname.nsw.firm.au
>   - Companies, etc are given companyname.firm.au
>
>There is no chance of collision.

Your proposal falls down right there.

The DNS is restricted to alphanumeric characters and the hyphen.
There are no such restrictions on business names, therefore the
chance of collisions is very real indeed.

  ...R.