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timothy
from the generic-dot-something-hey-you dept.
m0f3z writes: "According to this article,
auDA has organised to auction off previously reserved internet names, such as hotel.com.au and banks.com.au. It's believed the auction is the first of its kind in the world."
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Why don't they go the whole hog:
1) Abolish ownership of all domain names, and replace it with a system of 12-month leases, issued by auction.
2) At end of every 12 month period, auction each domain name again?
Hell, even as it is, you can't register a.org.au domain unless you're a legally incorporated association. You can't register a.com.au unless you're a legally registered business, and the domain name has to be the same as the business' trading name.
I was born in, and spent the first 32 years of my life, in Australia. Looking at it from outside, I'm fascinated how the 'convict streak' there is paralleled by a severe authoritarian streak.
Hell, it's even against the law there to webcast an audio or video stream without a government license.
I'm surprised they haven't yet legislated to force all TCP/IP connections to go through Censorship Board firewalls.
I've spent 5 of the last 7 years in New Zealand (by virtue of my Kiwi wife), and I've never felt so free!
Last year a company called CentralNic [centralnic.com], who operate a registry for uk.com and many other similar domains, decided to auction off all the generic names they had previously held back. The main difference is that CentralNic did it for charity, and not to line their own pocket.
Why stop there? (Score:4, Interesting)
1) Abolish ownership of all domain names, and replace it with a system of 12-month leases, issued by auction.
2) At end of every 12 month period, auction each domain name again?
Hell, even as it is, you can't register a
I was born in, and spent the first 32 years of my life, in Australia. Looking at it from outside, I'm fascinated how the 'convict streak' there is paralleled by a severe authoritarian streak.
Hell, it's even against the law there to webcast an audio or video stream without a government license.
I'm surprised they haven't yet legislated to force all TCP/IP connections to go through Censorship Board firewalls.
I've spent 5 of the last 7 years in New Zealand (by virtue of my Kiwi wife), and I've never felt so free!
Not the first (Score:2, Interesting)