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."
Why stop there?
by
heretic108
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Why don't they go the whole hog:
1) Abolish ownership of all domain names, and replace it with a system of 12-month leases, issued by auction.
2) At end of every 12 month period, auction each domain name again?
Hell, even as it is, you can't register a.org.au domain unless you're a legally incorporated association. You can't register a.com.au unless you're a legally registered business, and the domain name has to be the same as the business' trading name.
I was born in, and spent the first 32 years of my life, in Australia. Looking at it from outside, I'm fascinated how the 'convict streak' there is paralleled by a severe authoritarian streak.
Hell, it's even against the law there to webcast an audio or video stream without a government license.
I'm surprised they haven't yet legislated to force all TCP/IP connections to go through Censorship Board firewalls.
I've spent 5 of the last 7 years in New Zealand (by virtue of my Kiwi wife), and I've never felt so free!
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In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
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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Why don't they go the whole hog:
.org.au domain unless you're a legally incorporated association. You can't register a .com.au unless you're a legally registered business, and the domain name has to be the same as the business' trading name.
1) Abolish ownership of all domain names, and replace it with a system of 12-month leases, issued by auction.
2) At end of every 12 month period, auction each domain name again?
Hell, even as it is, you can't register a
I was born in, and spent the first 32 years of my life, in Australia. Looking at it from outside, I'm fascinated how the 'convict streak' there is paralleled by a severe authoritarian streak.
Hell, it's even against the law there to webcast an audio or video stream without a government license.
I'm surprised they haven't yet legislated to force all TCP/IP connections to go through Censorship Board firewalls.
I've spent 5 of the last 7 years in New Zealand (by virtue of my Kiwi wife), and I've never felt so free!
-- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
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