[plug] [OT] domain name registration

[Shayne O'Neill]

Oh wow. Yeah.

Perth Indymedia tried to get  perthimc.org.au but we needed all of this
corporate ID that made no sense at all from the perspective of a loosely
knit bunch of amatures with cameras. However we could go for an asn.au,
and I refused to go for a .org . I think this just means that someone
could grab perthimc.org where we are SUPPOSED to be and nothing we can do
because we are not a company. This makes no sense to me.

Shayne.

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Shayne O'Neill. Indymedia. Fun.
http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, senectus wrote:

> What really bugs me is that its MUCH harder to obtain a second level domain
> than it is to get a first level domain..
> Ie:
> I needed nothing more than a Credit Card to register a .net but to get a
> net.au I need shit loads of ID and business proof etc etc..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Onno Benschop
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 1:51 PM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] domain name registration
>
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 16:12, Russ Powers wrote:
> > I will probably only use the .com.au but it's going to be for a business
> > so if it's cheap enough and their both available, I may go for both.
>
> This really bugs me, companies registering every domain permutation
> under the sun.
>
> IMHO, either you're a company or you're not, either you're Australian or
> you're not, etc.
>
> And don't get me started on inappropriate use of .net, .org, .au.com
> etc...
>
>
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