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.Net.au "sunset" proposal

Is auDA about to replace one bad extension with another?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 57.1%
  • No

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • Unsure

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Total voters
    7

snoopy

Top Contributor
Finally common sense seems to be prevailing, after years of wasted effort promoting this confusing, rubbish tld. That effort could have gone into promoting the clear winner, .com.au.

"The Panel is inviting stakeholder feedback on closing the .net.au namespace to new registrations, especially given the opening of the .au domain namespace."

https://auda.org.au/assets/Policies/PRP-Issues-Paper-Registrant-Policy-January-2018.pdf


Lastly is auDA about to make exactly the same mistake again with .AU? When .AU fails in the marketplace will auDA then spend its time trying to sell the unsellable just like they did with .net.au and .id.au? Are we facing another Nominet situation?

auDA let's have the courage to scrap what is a bad idea rather than just plowing ahead "because it would embarrassing to turn back". That is what I am hearing from auDA, that people inside auDA now see no benefit at all in direct registrations any more. They now use the word "neutral" and they only keep plowing ahead because they see that as easier than the embarrassment of admitting it was a bad idea.
 

Data Glasses

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I wonder how many .net.au's are currently registered? I think they are handy for "JoePlumber" and other small business's
 

snoopy

Top Contributor
I wonder how many .net.au's are currently registered? I think they are handy for "JoePlumber" and other small business's

Ausregistry publishes this data. They've been in decline for some time.

Agree there is some usage but it is a shoddy product that shouldn't be offered in my view, ditto for .id.au.
 

chris

Top Contributor
Finally common sense seems to be prevailing, after years of wasted effort promoting this confusing, rubbish tld. That effort could have gone into promoting the clear winner, .com.au.

"The Panel is inviting stakeholder feedback on closing the .net.au namespace to new registrations, especially given the opening of the .au domain namespace."

Interesting idea. Are there any examples of any ccTLD extensions being closed overseas?
 

snoopy

Top Contributor
Interesting idea. Are there any examples of any ccTLD extensions being closed overseas?

Lots of Australian ones, .oz.au for example (still in use but sunsetted). See image below for other .au extensions which have been sunsetted or closed. There is others around in different country codes but I'd have to dig for the info. I remember talk of sunsetting the whole of .su not so long ago.

Screen Shot 2018-01-26 at 3.43.45 pm.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.au#Other_Australian_domain_names
 

snoopy

Top Contributor
Actually I think it was .yu rather than .su, it was completely deleted rather than sunsetted,

.yu was the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) that was assigned to Yugoslavia and was mainly used by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its successor Serbia and Montenegro between 1994 and 2010. After Serbia and Montenegro acquired separate .rs and .me domains in 2007, a transition period started, and the .yu domain finally expired on 30 March 2010.[1] It was the most heavily used top-level domain ever to be deleted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.yu

Given the current usage of .net.au and the costs to registrants to shift sites I think .net.au should simply be sunsetted to prevent new registrations.
 

Data Glasses

Top Contributor
That's what I say to all the Aboriginals asking for money
Just to clarify that was not a racist statement, just an observation of what I see in Smith Street Collingwood, however had it been Fitzroy (hipster central) I would tend to agree a whole lot more
 

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