Australia's Generic Net Names To Be Put Up For Auction
Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the generic-dot-something-hey-you dept.
m0f3z writes: "According to this article,
auDA has organised to auction off previously reserved internet names, such as hotel.com.au and banks.com.au. It's believed the auction is the first of its kind in the world."
KRE lost his fight, now auDA sells off everything
by
Anonymous Coward
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Robert Elz was dead against this. His standard was that you got foobar.com.au if your company was called foobar and not otherwise. Nice clean system.
But he lost his fight to keep.au and now the moment auDA gets control they throw out all logic.
"Highest bidder? Excellent way to ensure a logical address space. No ethical problem as long as we get a lot of money for it!"
I'm upset they breath the same air I do.
Not open season
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purplemonkeydan
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It's not 'open season' on whatever stupid domain name you want (I was looking at nudists.com.au;).
.com.au requires you to hold a business name or trademark similar to the domain you want to register.
To successfully win in the auction, you needed to have a valid and relevant trademark or business name current as of last August.
It's mainly for companies that had a generic name as a trademark, but due to the existing policies of the previous.au administration were not allowed to register an appropriate.com.au (Orange comes to mind; they can probably pickup orange.com.au as well as their current.net.au).
First of it's kind?
by
Zocalo
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I don't know about "it's believed the auction is the first of its kind in the world" but wasn't one of the new TLDs auctioned off? Sure, it got classed as an illegal lottery, but it was still an auction of domain names to the highest bidder.
Actually this makes a lot of sense to me; raise a shitload of cash for nothing and then watch the new owners of the vastly overvalued domain names struggle to recoup their investment while you laugh all the way to the bank. This scheme sounds suspiciously like the 3G mobile auctions in the UK a few years ago; the government got £26 *billion* for a few leases on the RF spectrum. Like, sure, there is £26 billion to recouped from 3G in a population of less than 60m...
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But he lost his fight to keep .au and now the moment auDA gets control they throw out all logic.
"Highest bidder? Excellent way to ensure a logical address space. No ethical problem as long as we get a lot of money for it!"
I'm upset they breath the same air I do.
It's not 'open season' on whatever stupid domain name you want (I was looking at nudists.com.au ;).
.au administration were not allowed to register an appropriate .com.au (Orange comes to mind; they can probably pickup orange.com.au as well as their current .net.au).
.com.au requires you to hold a business name or trademark similar to the domain you want to register.
To successfully win in the auction, you needed to have a valid and relevant trademark or business name current as of last August.
It's mainly for companies that had a generic name as a trademark, but due to the existing policies of the previous
Actually this makes a lot of sense to me; raise a shitload of cash for nothing and then watch the new owners of the vastly overvalued domain names struggle to recoup their investment while you laugh all the way to the bank. This scheme sounds suspiciously like the 3G mobile auctions in the UK a few years ago; the government got £26 *billion* for a few leases on the RF spectrum. Like, sure, there is £26 billion to recouped from 3G in a population of less than 60m...
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!