.au Perspective

[Scott.L]

Hello Everyone,

Today I posted an article on domainer.com.au that highlights some statistical facts taken from various high profile market reports. Its not an in depth analysis but a simple snap shot of the Australian market and its relationship to the DNS.
I hope you get a chance to read it and comment; A big thanks to Ned for the encouragement and opportunity to publish it on his site.

 

[Scott7]

Excellent article. Thanks for sharing.

 

[findtim]

thanks scott, somethinig everyone parking should read.
tim

 

[Scott.L]

Yeah flooding the space with more parked pages isn't going to improve the DNS . Take for example, our economy is about digging holes and growing sheep yet Google the word wool or mining and you see .com dominates...??? Admittedly, those industries are selling to a global audience but notice the .com.au for wool and mining are dead.

 

[snoopy]

Yeah flooding the space with more parked pages isn't going to improve the DNS . Take for example, our economy is about digging holes and growing sheep yet Google the word wool or mining and you see .com dominates...??? Admittedly, those industries are selling to a global audience but notice the .com.au for wool and mining are dead.

I suspect there will be problems down the road for small/micro businesses who don't know what to choose between a .com.au and .au and end out choosing a .au. If the business does ok for them they are going to find someone else on the .com.au (for traffic). The .au isn't likely to pass the radio test well.

 

[Scott.L]

Or worse a small business develops the .au choice and the .com.au owner simply mirrors it's success.

 

[Scott.L]

LOL....sorry snoopy I just realised I posted the same thing you said.

 

[Scott.L]

It's not a clearly definablle extension....if .Aussie were released we probably wouldn't care.

 

[findtim]

ozzie ? aussie? radio test

If the business does ok for them they are going to find someone else on the .com.au (for traffic)

yep, traffic bleed is going to be a winner, another reason why this represents defensive rego's
i say 1 or the other not both
tim