On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 07:28 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > Just out of curiosity, are you able to register the country specific > domain even if you are not a citizen of that country? I know that with a > ".ca" (Canada) domain, that you agree to a testament citing your > citizenship to Canada -- legally binding. If you are not, you may be > contested freely and you would, more than likely, lose that .ca domain. > People don't have to actually need the particular domain being > contested, but simply report the fact that a person, who is not a > citizen of that country, has registered a country domain without having > proper citizenry. > > I thought that most countries had adopted this method. > > This is different, if for example, you are a registered entity > worldwide, which is quite expensive. I believe, this is what the > DocumentFoundation hopes to do. Which is why they have expressed their > hope that the DocumentFoundation.(countrycode) domain holders will later > pass-on (donate) back these to the foundation -- once they have legal > entity arranged for that country.
I think that in Australia you (or your company/organisation) must have some connection with the name you want to register. If it's not your personal name, you need to provide documentary evidence of a registered business name or something similar. It's been awhile since I tried to register a .au name, though, so things could have changed. And I don't know if you must be a citizen or resident as well. --Jean -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
