To point things in a completely different direction, rather than moving
to the model of direct registration of .au domains, which in effect
closes the .au namespace to any further 2LDs, I think it makes far more
sense to open the .au namespace up even further by introducing more 2LDs.
For example, a model based on industry classification - i.e.
name.industry.au
For example:
- anz.bank.au
- abc.tv.au
- mmm.radio.au
- bigpond.isp.au
- telstra.tel.au / telstra.telco.au
- johns.plumbing.au
The greater the number of 2LDs and the more specific they are, the more
open the .au namespace is, the greater the room to grow and more
importantly, the fewer IP issues and domain conflicts. There is no
conflict between xyz.bank.au and xyz.plumbing.au but there is when both
want xyz.com.au
Andrew
Josh Rowe wrote:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 05:58:30PM -0700, David Goldstein wrote:
Australia has one of the highest (maybe .ca is higher) registrations of .com
domains in the world per capita. What are the reasons for this? I assume there
are several, but it could be there are some reasons that have had more of an
impact.
Here are statistics based on the top ten countries who register .com domain
names:
Country .COM per capita
------- ---------------
Hong Kong 20.34%
United States 12.94%
Australia 6.20%
Canada 6.12%
United Kingdom 3.74%
Germany 3.45%
France 2.00%
Spain 1.58%
Japan 0.56%
China 0.15%
Country ccTLD per capita
------- ----------------
Germany 13.36%
United Kingdom 9.90%
Australia 4.28%
Canada 2.58%
Hong Kong 1.93%
France 1.31%
Spain 1.27%
Japan 0.72%
United States 0.41%
China 0.14%
These statistics will be in the next version of my paper together with the
sources I used.
If anyone else has any further empirical evidence for or against opening up .au
then please share it with me.
Josh
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