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.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.

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  1. hurray! He blowz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just wanted to give a shout out to the Commander. Sorry.

  2. Beep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Honk honk beep honk beep beep beep honk beep.

  3. At last! by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    goatse.au !!!

    At least its a little more appropriate...

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  4. Kinda offtopic but... by selmer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one that's unable to view comments with the archived stories?? Ever since /. switched to banjo archived stories appear with no comments whatsoever.

  5. 2250567 = 3^2 * 11 * 127 * 179 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How hard would it be for Slashdot to provide the informative prime factorization of our post numbers?

  6. Re:I don't see how this matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You idiot.

    No, don't mod this down. I'm being serious. The poster above is clearly an idiot

  7. oops by Technodummy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    is it really to hard to read the posts?

    maybe it is, it's far too hard to type...

  8. MODERATORS! by The+Ultimate+Badass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The above poster has abused his +2 bonus to post an off-topic comment. Mod him down NOW!

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  9. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bored, arn't we?

  10. Re:Just a few more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lame

  11. Re:ICANN and ccTLDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Given the fights between ICANN and the ccTLDs about funding, isn't there a conflict of interest in ICANN being able to review the appointment of ccTLD managers?

  12. Re:ICANN and ccTLDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Given the fights between ICANN and the ccTLDs about funding, isn't there a conflict of interest in ICANN being able to review the appointment of ccTLD managers?

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  13. Re:ICANN and ccTLDs by timothy+on · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  14. Steve Ballmer Music Video: Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://homepage.mac.com/jcarusone/iMovieTheater2.h tml

    This is weird. And scary. (And very addicting ...)

    Ballmer's new music video ...

  15. Oh come now by Pope · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Fully a third of posters here can't even tell you the proper plural of the word "virus," and now you're expecting them to tell the difference between two countries with the first 5 letters in common? You might as well ask them if they know the difference between Kansas and Arkansas!

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