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Article #88Re: au.com, aust.com, etc...
From: MAVerick
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 00:00
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Why would an Australian company want a domain such as xxxxx.aust.com anyway ??? There's enough bunnies who post on Newsgroups thinking .aus stands for Austin TX. Would'nt aust.com be just as bad if not worse ? Only reason I can think of is to get a domain name that is otherwise impossible in Australia due to how pedantic the AUNIC domain aministrators can be (ie, steadfast adherance to the company's name... often it is far more appropriate to have a domain name that represents a Trademark, but it cant be done in Australia). Here's an example... If National Panasonic were HQ'd in Australia, they would have to have a domain name reading Matsushita.com.au (and even that is an abbreviation that they would have to fight for)... what percentage of the public would find that one by guessing ? -- ***** SPAM belongs in a Sandwich ***** Please remove trailing '.spam' from return address to reply ***** SPAM belongs in a Sandwich *****
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