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>Hmmm.  Here's a hypothetical.  What if the various domain administrators
>got together sometime and had a chat about how the .AU namespace...

>Say that they came to the conclusion that some people were registering
>marginal domains for vanity reasons, and that people were registering
>their companies in inappropriate hierarchies.

>They might even form the suspicion that because different hierarchies
>take differing lengths of time to process a new domain entry, some
>people were applying for their domain in multiple hierarchies, and
>using whichever one came through first until their preferred domain
>was processed. This would be causing them extra work, for no point,
>and with presumably no financial reimbursement.

So why not charge for DNS registration? A minimal fee for .org.au, and a larger
fee for .com.au and .net.au - possibly with aan annual maintenance fee for the
latter two. Although it can't really be expected for people using .org.au to
pay too much, given that they (possibly) won't have an income/expediture 
budget, it seems fair for companies to have to pay for their use of the 'net,
since many of them will, in some way, gain some financial returns for their
presence.

>So, if the managers of the .AU namespace see someone abusing other
>domains (eg.  .NET), then are they entitled to refuse the person
>registering any new domains within their .AU namespace?

They really should be allowed to have such control over .au domain registration
- especially since most of the effort comes from volunteer work...

Angus Mann, mann@ipacific.net.au