The name.industry.au model does not in anyway remove the eligibility
requirements of the .au namespace. As such, microsoft.cobbler.au or
cocacola.plumbing.au could not be registered unless the eligibility
criteria was met.
Further to this, such a model would reduce fraud and issues like
phising, as only genuine banks could register .bank.au
In the Bulgarian example, as the 2LD is generic, to fully protect a
brand you would have to register it using all of the possible
extensions. However, using the name.industry.au model, as the 2LD is
specific, the reverse is true, you only need to register the domain for
the industries in which you trade - i.e. Microsoft, CocaCola etc. would
never need to register a .bank.au or .plumbing.au extension, etc.
Ron Stark wrote:
Extrapolating your suggestion, and the Bulgarian example from Josh,
there are two probable consequences:
- Registrars (and, by definition, Registries) would enjoy
another bonanza as businesses rushed to protect their brands (or
predators rushed to grab unprotected brands).
- The value and relevance of a domain name as a brand protection
device would diminish.
Using Bulgaria as an example: if I wanted to protect the brand of a
new business I'd need to register 37 domain names all at once. It
would be far cheaper to have a single 2LD and increase the price of a
domain name by 2000%. And how would MS or Coke respond if I wanted to
register Microsoft.cobbler.au or coca cola.plumbing.au, given that
this suggested model would allow me to do so?
Ron Stark
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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
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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
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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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