[plug] [OT] domain name registration

[Daniel Pearson]

.au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) is the government-endorsed manager of
Australian domain names (see http://www.auda.org.au).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "senectus" <senectuskal at hotmail.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:39 PM
Subject: RE: [plug] [OT] domain name registration


> Sorry this has probably been said before but what is AuDA??
>
> And what you say makes sense... but there must be better ways of
controlling
> squatting than just "make it bloody hard to get"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au]
On
> Behalf Of Craig Ringer
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 3:35 PM
> To: Perth Linux User Group
> Subject: RE: [plug] [OT] domain name registration
>
> 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
>
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