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.au's Reclusive Administrator Elz Deposed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rug-out-from-under dept.

Disco Stu writes: "The Sydney Morning Herald has the following story: 'The reclusive programmer Mr Robert Elz has lost control of Australia's domain name system to a private-sector body after the Federal Government rejected his request for the Government to take over the custodianship instead.' I've had to wait months for this guy to get around to approving domains in the past ... but I still can't decide if this is good or not." Sounds bad to me -- or at least Elz sounds good, principled and unconventional.

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  1. Privatised? What a huge bloody surprise! by pompomtom · · Score: 2, Funny

    Asking THIS federal govt to take responsibility for something which could be flogged off to some mates... you've got to be pulling my chain!

    Deposed by reason of insanity perhaps.

    --

    Buckets,

    pompomtom

    "There's an exception to every rule. Except for some rules"
  2. Re:Sounds good to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why should anyone be stuck waiting for some guy getting around to accepting their registration? Now it'll sure be faster to get a domain!

    Yeah... deregulation and privatisation is the only way to go if you want better and faster service. Just look how smoothly the UK railways work now years after the privatisation.

  3. Re:Yay - about bloody time he was deposed! by jsse · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you bad mouth Elz. He singlehandedly save the face of Australians, in his honorable act of keeping sex.au from being used by any erotic business.

    You can see how nasty sex.au would sound and to what extend Australia's image would be damaged if this domain name is being used.

    But now I'm sure sex.au would be hitting another high bid in the auction....

    (ok, I'm just kidding, but there's really no one owns sex.au)

  4. Re:Why Elz was bad for Australia by purplemonkeydan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who gave them the permission to take over an academic/military born free network and turn it into a commercialized wasteland with nothing but ads and pay-for-access content?!

    Uhh ... the US Government?

  5. Re:.au? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    and while we're at it, the USA can change theirs to .us