Re: BIZ.AU Domain Proposal

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From: Leigh Hart
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 00:00

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Danny (danny@cs.su.oz.au) wrote:
: In a biz.au delegation proposal,
: Michael Malone <pariah@creole.iinet.net.au> wrote:
: 
: [ requirements for domain in biz.au ]
: 
: >5) is not a word defined to be vulgar in a standard Australian English
: >   dictionary word,
: 
: Sheesh, now we have censorship of the DNS.  Isn't this outright 
: discrimination against people selling "vulgar" products, anyway?
: 
: We need to be able to say,
: f--k.biz.au :-)

The proposal Michael posted did allow for hyphen characters as long as 
the first and last characters in the domain were alpha, so technically 
you /can/ have f--k.biz.au :-)

Cheers

Leigh

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From: hart@opera.iinet.net.au (Leigh Hart)
Subject: Re: BIZ.AU Domain Proposal
Date: 1996/12/05
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