> His web site suggests flowers.web.id.au, computers.web.id.au,
> sydney.web.id.au, design.web.id.au,e, dvds.web.id.au, etc.

Geez, what a non-event.  The demand from Registrants for fourth level
domains is about zilch.

Even 'newbies' inherently know that:

   foobar.com is the simplest
   foobar.com.au is second best in simplicity (but some of them may prefer
it because it puts emphasis on an 'aussie' element)
   foobar.anythingelse.com.au is a joke


If there was actually user demand for 4LDs in the .au namespace, then it
would be happening already under com.au.


I think we can add this offer from the web.id.au Registrant to the list of
"people demonstrating in public their poor understanding of what the market
actually wants".




Regards, Mark

Mark Hughes
Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
+61 4 1374 3959
www.pplications.com.au
effectivebusiness§applications.com.au


-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Rowe [mailto:josh§email.nu]
Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 10:44 AM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: [DNS] web.id.au


Here's an interesting one, Graham Webber has registered "web.id.au" and is
now selling web.id.au sub-domains.

His web site suggests flowers.web.id.au, computers.web.id.au,
sydney.web.id.au, design.web.id.au,e, dvds.web.id.au, etc.

Does this break any rules?

Web Id Australia
http://www.web.id.au/

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The domain is registered by:

Domain ROID:             D0372576-AR
Domain Name:             web.id.au
Last Modified:           17-May-2003 00:47:27 UTC
Registrar ID:            R00013-AR
Registrar Name:               Enetica
Status:                  ok

Registrant:              Graham Webber
Registrant ID:

Registrant ROID:         C1040255-AR
Registrant Contact Name: Graham Webber
Registrant Email:        gweb§web.id.au

Tech ID:                 C1040256-AR
Tech Name:               Graham Webber
Tech Email:              graham§webcity.com.au

Name Server:             ns1.enetica.com.au
Name Server IP:          203.17.36.111
Name Server:             ns2.enetica.com.au
Name Server IP:          203.17.36.4


Josh
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http://josh.id.au/

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