I find that very hard to believe, have you registered a trademark in 20
different classes?
Most companies would only need to register 1 domain name.
The more specific the domain name is, the less it can be abused, the
fewer conflicts there are and the less lawyers need to be involved.
Ron Stark wrote:
OK. So I'd only need to register 20 domain names instead of 37 to
cover my interests. My argument however remains.
But wouldn't the lawyers have a field day ............
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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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domains
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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