On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> You *really* want to pay C$140 for a 2 year .com.au or would you prefer to
> pay C1/3 (even allowing for US$/A$ conversion) of that for a 3 year (or up
> to 10 year) .com domain
I'm not so in love with the .com system. In order to protect one of my
names I've had to register 12 variations (with trailing "s", with hyphen,
.org, .com, .net etc.), despite having registered a US trade mark to
protect myself! The net cost is much more than the australian status
quo.
I host a site which is .com ... but someone has registered a variation of
his name by simply removing a hyphen and now uses that domain name to host
XXXX porn.
I can't see the open slather .com system as being such a great idea unless
you are running a registry. They must have made a mozza from .info and
.biz
Sorry about the off-topic.
>
> If you want to hold off for a short while the prices should plummet for
> .com.au when competition kicks in.
>
> As for the business name - well the business name (or your company name,
> or your personal name) has to contain the letters, in the same order, as
> the domain name. There was an interesting one the other day where a
> strong domain name was derived by selecting characters in sequence from a
> totally unrelated business name. I cannot remember the detail, but it was
> quite cunning.
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Matt - wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have recently been interested in registering
> > a domain name for myself. I am guessing that
> > this SLUG list has a pretty large group of people
> > who know the ins and outs of domain registration
> > so I was hoping I could get some experienced
> > information.
> >
> > Firstly, I want it to be a .com.au domain name.
> > Does this mean I HAVE TO register a business
> > name with the words I want in my domain name ?
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