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Australia Likely to Ban Domaining

10 points by ca98am79 8y ago

LinuxBender 8y ago
I would like to see this applied to all TLD's.
- ca98am79 8y ago
  I don't think it is going to help the issue, and will most likely make things harder for everyone. I have yet to hear of an alternative to a free market for domains that would work. What do you suggest? A committee decides who gets each domain? If you owned a domain that you planned to use in the future, or that you tried but failed to build on, and someone offered you $1M - would you refuse?
  - LinuxBender 8y ago
    One solution would be to create a registrar account for each legal entity or incorporated business you own. I admit, they likely need to refine the limitations if it were to be applied to all TLD's. e.g. typo-squatting has to be accommodated for. I've been offered decent money for some domains I've held on to that were just catchy names, but I passed. AFAIK, this would not prevent me from selling one of my domains.
billpg 8y ago
So many ads on that page!
RileyJames 8y ago
> The PRP has also recommended the introduction of opening up .au to direct, second-level registrations, much like the UK, New Zealand and others have over the last several years. Is that stating that .au will become available? Ie: hackernews.au, or am I misunderstanding that? Domain squating hasn’t been such an issue with .com.au primarily due to the requirement to have an ABN, which excludes squating by non-Australian entities (at least makes it harder).
wincy 8y ago
My old boss owned a whole bunch of domains. When we switched to a new DNS he had me transfer several hundred of them manually (this was before I learned to code). I have no doubt that his in-laws would suddenly own a bunch of domain names to keep below the 99 domain limit if something like this became popular for other Tlds. Where there’s potential profit to be made people will find a way around them. I find it interesting that all the single letter domains like www.a.com don’t have some popular site attached to them. Someone completely naive to the internet would think that would be the case, but it’s not. I wonder why that is? Edit: ah fascinating there’s a Wikipedia article about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_d...
- RileyJames 8y ago
  Is it worth the risk? The risk being the entire portfolio of domains is de-registered.
cylinder 8y ago
For .com.au you already need an Australian Business Number (ABN). You need to have a genuine business operating in Australia to get one. This will add a further barrier, which is needed.

10 points by ca98am79 8y ago

LinuxBender 8y ago

I would like to see this applied to all TLD's.

ca98am79 8y ago
I don't think it is going to help the issue, and will most likely make things harder for everyone. I have yet to hear of an alternative to a free market for domains that would work. What do you suggest? A committee decides who gets each domain? If you owned a domain that you planned to use in the future, or that you tried but failed to build on, and someone offered you $1M - would you refuse?
- LinuxBender 8y ago
  One solution would be to create a registrar account for each legal entity or incorporated business you own. I admit, they likely need to refine the limitations if it were to be applied to all TLD's. e.g. typo-squatting has to be accommodated for. I've been offered decent money for some domains I've held on to that were just catchy names, but I passed. AFAIK, this would not prevent me from selling one of my domains.

billpg 8y ago

So many ads on that page!

RileyJames 8y ago

> The PRP has also recommended the introduction of opening up .au to direct, second-level registrations, much like the UK, New Zealand and others have over the last several years. Is that stating that .au will become available? Ie: hackernews.au, or am I misunderstanding that? Domain squating hasn’t been such an issue with .com.au primarily due to the requirement to have an ABN, which excludes squating by non-Australian entities (at least makes it harder).

wincy 8y ago

My old boss owned a whole bunch of domains. When we switched to a new DNS he had me transfer several hundred of them manually (this was before I learned to code). I have no doubt that his in-laws would suddenly own a bunch of domain names to keep below the 99 domain limit if something like this became popular for other Tlds. Where there’s potential profit to be made people will find a way around them. I find it interesting that all the single letter domains like www.a.com don’t have some popular site attached to them. Someone completely naive to the internet would think that would be the case, but it’s not. I wonder why that is? Edit: ah fascinating there’s a Wikipedia article about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_d...

RileyJames 8y ago
Is it worth the risk? The risk being the entire portfolio of domains is de-registered.

cylinder 8y ago

For .com.au you already need an Australian Business Number (ABN). You need to have a genuine business operating in Australia to get one. This will add a further barrier, which is needed.