.au's Reclusive Administrator Elz Deposed

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.

Comments

Yay - about bloody time he was deposed!

[dustpuppy]

I've talked to several web hosting companies in Australia who have hosted various websites that I have designed and which have involved .org.au domain name transfers or creations and none of them have ever had anything nice to say about Elz.

The words: obstructionist, rude, arrogant, overbearing (and others that are unprintable) have all been used to describe Elz.

Whatever people may like to think about Elz and his policies (some of which were good), the fact of the matter is that the Internet is not (and hasn't been for several years) a private little network which can be run by an academic with no connection to the real world.

Whether we like it or not, the Internet is an essential tool for many businesses, organisations and people - it is completely unacceptable that it could take months for register a .org.au.

As far as I am concerned, and I'm pretty sure anyone who has had to liase with Elz would agree - it's a case of good riddance.