[plug] [OT] domain name registration

[Cameron Patrick]

Craig Ringer wrote:

| 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 ;-)

Indeed. :-)  I was under the imporession that the rules have been
relaxed significantly over the past few years (around the time that
Melbourne IT was formed), too, although looking at the policy on
auda.org.au it seems that some of the rules I thought had vanished were
still there.

Cameron.