Re: Regional domain names proposal

Article View: aus.net.policy

Article #165

#165

From: David Bromage
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 05:46

24 lines
1891 bytes

The Raven wrote:
> "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3B451439.C2C2E22B@fang.omni.com.au...
> > Does anybody know if the full regional domain names proposal is
> > available to the public?
> Look for a court case regarding the domain brisbane.com.au. The city of
> Brisbane were unable to get it from a company that had previously registered
> it, which shows how the naming policy can be over-ridden by the courts (much
> to MelbourneITs disgust).
> 
> > For example, newcastle.nsw.au could not be registered by anybody other
> > than the City of Newcastle.
> 
> Theoretically but see above. What if I had a company name of Newcastle Pty
> Ltd?

Then you could get newcastle.com.au, but you couldn't get
newcastle.nsw.au.

Anybody could get boston.com if it was free, but you couldn't get
boston.ma.us

Cheers
David

Technical Details

Message-ID: <3B4550B0.4B630431@fang.omni.com.au>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.optus.net.au!optus!clarion.carno.net.au

References: <3B451439.C2C2E22B@fang.omni.com.au> <U5b17.49388$Rr4.25262@ozemail.com.au>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f4bcb,c8044f889aefcd87
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bcb,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-05 22:46:27 PST
Message-ID: <3B4550B0.4B630431@fang.omni.com.au>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:46:24 +1000
From: David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au>
Organization: a roadblock on the Information Superhighway
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.71 [en] (WinNT; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: aus.net.policy
Subject: Re: Regional domain names proposal
References: <3B451439.C2C2E22B@fang.omni.com.au> <U5b17.49388$Rr4.25262@ozemail.com.au>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.56.1.77
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.56.1.77
X-Trace: clarion.carno.net.au 994398309 130.56.1.77 (6 Jul 2001 15:45:09 +1000)
Lines: 24
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.optus.net.au!optus!clarion.carno.net.au

Reply to Parent Message