Saliya, you left out the 'combinations'  ...

choose any combination of ;

.com / .com.au
.net / .net.au
.org / .org.au
.biz / .biz.au
.info / .info.au

To protect your names you only need the combination of two... I service
domain names and help people choose in a lot of cases. I have never said
that the 'buy all mentalitly' is good or the way to go.. on the contray I
think that name protection is a real factor and getting the combintation is
a factor. Currently there is no protection for .au registrants
internationaly in the names that they can currently choose. Thus
introduction of .info and .biz.

Also I never mentioned .name or .pro or any other TLD. They are just not
big enough in my view to warrent following the DOT blindly as you put it...

I'm also presuming that you are referencing ICANN as the DOT... If I'm
wrong let me know..

I'm also gald that you can make assumptions on my vested intrests... Just
to let you know the number of domain names that is registered help us all..
more names, more money for the companies that provide the services, more
services that are avaiable, the more names that are registered. And in the
end it gives the auDA more to do the things that we all want for the .au
domain space...

It's all our vested interest...  even yours.

Best Regards,

Michael-Pappas.

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Michael-Pappas wrote:
>
>> Having said that the only domain names that I could see that would
>> really help and open up the .au space would be domain names in the
>> .info.au and biz.au domain space. (At this time) This being as it will
>> provide an Australian base for Australian and International
>> Trademark/Business Holders to choose any combination of ;
>
> Realistically; more 2LDs only means more names for people to try to
> 'protect' with the current mindset of 'register everything'.
>
> That's not good for anybody apart from those whose business it is to
> sell domain names. Anybody who has such a vested interest need not
> reply to this thread :)
>
> I wouldn't say 'follow "." blindly in the .au namespace'; in fact, I'd
> say 'take a long hard look at "." and try to learn from the mistakes'.
>
> And I'd have to agree with some other people's sentiments; get the
> basic functions right first (because they're not, yet) before expansion
> is discussed. Don't want to be another dot-bomb, do we ? :P
>
> Regards,
>
> Saliya
>
>
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