[plug] [OT] domain name registration

[Craig Ringer]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:21, Bennett, Phillip wrote:
> >> 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.. 

Sounds right to me. .net.au, .com.au, etc all have different purposes,
and different requirements. Almost like the suffix is meant to /mean/
something ;-)

> >Damn right !  I expect it to be as easy to register .com.au as it is to 
> >register .com. Not going to happen of course :-(

I hope it's harder. .com has major squatting problems and all sorts of
other nasties, where .com.au works rather well - at the cost of being a
little harder to set up.

> Isn't this so we don't have the same domain squatting problems as the US?
> So that people don't abuse it quite as much?

Absolutely. I went to the AuDA seminar last year(?) and they made it
very clear at the media lunch and the following seminar why we have the
domain system we do. I couldn't be happier with it - I don't have to
worry about squatters, and everything seems to just work.

The AuDA folks are really nice; if you get a chance, I suggest you say
Hi.

Craig Ringer