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Article #548Re: org.au - does it still accept registrations?
From: Karl Auer
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <4r8qav$lji@news.mel.aone.net.au> skud@athene.glasswings.com.au (Kirrily Robert) writes: >: id.au is for personal domains. You and friends. Fits the bill pretty >: much exactly. >Pity about that friggin awful "flora/fauna" thing though... I *refuse* >to be @ring-tailed-bandicoot.id.au or @sturt-desert-pea.id.au - who >the hell was responsible for that naming criteria? You'd think it'd >be possible to just register <name>.id.au where <name> is your name, >your family name, the name of your group, whatever. Well, no - you would be @<name>.ring-tailed-bandicoot.id.au. Otherwise we'd run out of domain names pretty fast. kre has the delegation for id.au and has delegated subdomains within it to various entities (for example, AUUG Canberra handles "emu.id.au"). Those delegates then delegate sub-subdomains to individuals. Regards, K. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer +61-6-2494627 (bh) kauer@pcug.org.au +61-6-2486607 (ah) Home page: http://www.pcug.org.au/~kauer/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4bcb,4b8004cb1a7613e6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bcb,public From: kauer@pcug.org.au (Karl Auer) Subject: Re: org.au - does it still accept registrations? Date: 1996/07/02 Message-ID: <kauer.417.0015F5D8@pcug.org.au> X-Deja-AN: 163278492 references: <4r5djk$bag@news.mel.aone.net.au> <4r8qav$lji@news.mel.aone.net.au> organization: The Internet Project, AUUG and PCUG, Canberra ACT Australia newsgroups: aus.net.policy