[AusNOG] auDA Policy Review Panel - Public Forums

[Chad Kelly]

On 2/13/2018 7:43 AM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:

> I have to admit I'm fairly surprised that no-one has any comments about the
> impending changes to the Australian system of domain names...
>
> I suppose when customers start asking/complaining about weird new
> characters under .au or missing <com|net|org|edu|id|asn|gov> and land in
> your helpdesk queues you'll do something...
I'm not surprised at all auDA struggle to enforce the policies they 
already have at times, with people using canceled ABN numbers to 
register au domains to setup fake websites to scam Au consumers. Also 
you destroyed the .au space when you allowed the commercialization of 
the space and people now just sit on .com.au domains for years.
As for new TLDs some of them make sense such as .hosting for website 
hosting companies as an example, but ones like .wtf  are just silly.
As for .au its just going to be another extension to add to the hundreds 
we have already got.
We don't really need it, as we already have .id.au for personal domains 
and if we are going to continue down this path, we might as well dispose 
of the organisation and just open up the entire .au namespace.


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Chad Kelly
Manager
CPK Web Services
Phone 03 5273 0246
Web www.cpkws.com.au