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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hughes" <effectivebusiness&#167;pplications.com.au>
To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:04 PM
Subject: RE: [DNS] New 2LD Proposals (to date)


>
> > In the case of id.au, a cheaper price will have an impact. The ability
> > to get a 'life-long' (in reality domain name comes up for license for
> > every 2 years) would be appealing in this case and even more appealing
> > if the price is 'affordable'.
>
> Cheaper price & permanent address / email has been available to
individuals
> for yonks.  Just register your own personal domain name in a global TLD
such
> as .com, .net, .org.
>
> To support an assertion that making id.au available cheaply will
> automatically create demand, one would have to have some evidence that  a
> third level domain under id.au is going to be more attractive than a
second
> level domain under .com, .net, or .org.  If anyone thinks they have any
such
> evidence (meaning 'evidence', as different from 'speculation', or 'hope'),
> I'd be interested in seeing it.
>
>
>
> > Consider the shear novelty factor of having john&#167;smith.id.au.
>
> Of course, consumers aren't going to be able to have
firstname&#167;surname.id.au
> (with very rare exceptions) because the vast majority of people have the
> same surname as other people.  So once the first 10,000 or so id.au domain
> names are registered, the other 19,000,000 consumers will have to settle
for
> something else.
>
>
>
> There are two advantages of a gTLD over id.au for personal domain names.
>
> 1. You get to register at the second level, rather than at the third
level.
> 2. There are no artificial restrictions on what you can have.
>
> By point 2 I'm referring to the restrictions that say your id.au domain
name
> must equal, be a contraction of, or be derived from or include one or more
> words from, the Registrant's personal name.
>
>
>
>
> So....................
> if we take a completely random example :)
>
> Cyrille Lefevre could apply for cyrille.id.au, or lefevre.id.au, but not
for
> fish.id.au or gingerfish.id.au, even if ginger fish is what he prefers to
> use as his email & identity on the internet.
>
> I know lots of people who use words other than their own name for their
> personal domain names.  One I know uses the name of the best horse he ever
> rode (he was a jockey 20 years ago).  Domain names are an opportunity for
> people to create their own identity from scratch - I'm not at all
convinced
> that everyone wants a web address/email address equivalent, or even close
> to, to their own name.
>
> I'm damned if I know why id.au has these restrictions.  Yeah, I know I
sound
> like a broken record when I point out yet again how poor was  the report
of
> the Name Policy Panel that came up with this stuff.  But I'm gonna do it
> anyway :)
>
>
>
> Regards, Mark
>
> Mark Hughes
> Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
> effectivebusiness&#167;pplications.com.au
> www.pplications.com.au
> +61 4 1374 3959
>
>
>
>
>
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