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TPP $1 .net.au extravaganza (not)

nt81

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Probably because it would devalue the .com.au market as it would be seen as higher up the food chain / more exclusive e.g melbourne.au would trump melbourne.com.au
 

findtim

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i can see the merits in just .au and sorry but i am going to harp my opinion forever.

if they switch/add just .au into the mix them the owner of the .com.au should not get "first dibs" .... they should be GIVEN the .au

if auda are going go down the path of .au based on useless excesses like " every other country is doing it" or " it will save typing " then they have to say " its not a money grab" otherwise IT IS.

tim
 

Rhythm

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if they switch/add just .au into the mix them the owner of the .com.au should not get "first dibs" .... they should be GIVEN the .au

Why? There is no precedent for this afaik. Probably because it is a bad idea. IIRC both .co and .uk had reasonable solutions.
 

findtim

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why does their have to be a precedent? can't we be the first ? and their will be a precedent !

if you think my idea is a bad idea then you don't own many domains and haven't calculated the additional cost of acquiring the new .au space for the names you have + the unknown cost if you have to compete for it + the effects on a business if they DON"T acquire it + if they use a NF type blind bid system to deal the new namespace.

what does auda pocket for a domain name registration? $7 ???? , how many domains registered? @ 2,810,242 hmmmm nice money spinner

as for precedence i remember being in brisbane and they added a 3 to the front of my phone number, i didn't have to pay for that and i didn't have to change the rest of my numbers.

businesses however had change their trucks, shop fronts, business cards etc and yes there was a few years cross over but still an expensive exercise.

tim
 

phpdev

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Why? There is no precedent for this afaik. Probably because it is a bad idea. IIRC both .co and .uk had reasonable solutions.

Personally I can't wait for the new shorter UK domains.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/uk-domain-names/introducing-uk
My existing "co.uk" portfolio of domains will be.. "automatically reserved" for me for free, for the next 5 years, until I choose to start using it.

I do think $1 "net.au" domains devalues the extension, and will result in massive drops in 2 years time. I'm only registering some as a defensive measure, to protect my existing .com.au's
 

auAppraisals

Regular Member
Doesn't this just move the problem?

what does auda pocket for a domain name registration? $7 ???? , how many domains registered? @ 2,810,242 hmmmm nice money spinner

Won't this just give AuDA two 'second teir' 2LDs (com.au and net.au) to deal with, or are you suggesting these are closed? What do you then do for the two existing 2LDs when they're owned by different organisations?

And what about those organisations that have spent many years and lots of money building a brand around their existing domain name?
 

auAppraisals

Regular Member
My existing "co.uk" portfolio of domains will be.. "automatically reserved" for me for free, for the next 5 years, until I choose to start using it.

How is Nominet dealing with the situation where one organisation owns the co.uk, another owns plc.uk, another owns org.uk, another the me.uk, etc, etc?
 

nt81

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Just received this in an email. Haha

Hi folks,

I've (anonymously) been in touch with AusRegistry and they've agreed to provide me with some info that may be of interest to you. So far this month, as a result of their $1 ".net.au" sale, there have been more than
27,000 NEW ".net.au" domains registered. (By comparison, there were
6,500 new “.net.au” registrations in May, 2013).

While a $1 price tag may be hard to resist, I still find it interesting (though not surprising) that AusRegistry has attracted more Australians to “.net.au” in one month than have been attracted to all of the new gTLDs combined since their inception; nTLDStats.com reports (29th May,
2014 AEST) that only 21,968 new gTLD domains have been registered by Australians to date.

These low numbers for gTLD registration among Australians is further proof of their confidence in “.com.au” and “.net.au”, and their undying loyalty to the “.au” ccTLD.

For more visit http://domainnamelogic.com/photo-items/contours-net-au/
This week I discuss ".net.au" used in franchising.

DomainNameLogic.com
 

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