On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:30:44AM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
> That is a good point.. I went and checked the whois stuff my self.. this is
> from netregistry's whois page (which incidently are the controllers of
> au.com - ozemail controls aust.com i recall.)
Both of which are nothing more than pretend 2LDs.
> [ns.aunic.net]
>
> domain: news.com.au
> descr: News Limited
> descr: (ACN) 007 871 178
> descr: GPO Box 4245
> descr: Sydney
> descr: NSW 2001
> admin-c: DN300-AU
> tech-c: DN300-AU
> zone-c: DN300-AU
> remarks: Created 19990305
This date is incorrect. News.com.au was registered well before 1999, but
at that stage the Created date for domains was not recorded. I think this
date is the date of the first change made to the domain after the Created
field was implemented.
Unless I'm mistaken news.com.au was registered at around the same time
as a few other generic domains such as shop.com.au and employment.com.au.
These registerations occured during a few week period in either 1995 or
1996 when Robert Elz (the person responsible for the .au, .com.au, etc
domains) was on holidays and had asked someone else to handle domain
registerations whilst he was away. Unfortunately this person did not
correctly follow the guidelines in what was allowed, and a number of
generic domains were registered.
When Robert Elz returned he chose not to revoke the domains (at least
1 of them was already in use), and thus we are stuck with them.
> > Anyway, because someone MUST have the rights to the name, either as
> > their business name, a direct derivitive of that name or the person's
> > name, how many people would be able to cybersquat on generic domain
> > names as opposed to normal ones?
How hard is it to register a business name?
Scott.
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