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."
Not open season
by
purplemonkeydan
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· Score: 4, Informative
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).
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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