Robert Maldon wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
> > Heh heh ... a real can of worms that one. The only system that seems
> > to work is awarding names on a first come first served basis, but
> > only where there is a demonstrable connection between the domain name and
> > the owner of the domain name.
>
> The real issue with domain names is not really ownership but how you go about
> resolving name clashes. e.g. Terry Collins wants "www.collins.com" and so
> does Collins Bookshop.
>
> An alternative to the current system is the ".id.au" domain (see www.id.au).
> This alternative allows the creation of flora-and-fauna subdomains, such as
> "gumtree.id.au" and "koala.id.au". The Collins clash could be resolved by
> giving Terry Collins the domain "collins.gumtree.id.au" and Collins Bookshop
> the domain "collins.koala.id.au".
absolutely not, I want collins.wombat.id.au {:-).
>
> The only disadvantage I can think of with the above alternative scheme is that
> it will take longer to guess "collins.koala.id.au" rather than
> "collins.com.au". (And a company probably would want a more professional
> sounding name than "koala.id.au").
For a company, this is what it is really about. Short, sharp and
easily remembered or guessed. www.woa.com.au is a good guess for
www.wombatoutdooradventures.com.au, which is too long to type in.
Variations like wombatoa, or wombatoutdoors, etc are not desireable.
The problem with the id.au flora and fauna is just that. How do you
know which floar/fauna someone is under? How do you find out the
possible options?, etc.
Unless someone can go terry.collins.id.au and get through, a lot of
its use has gone.
Then we are still back to the same problem of the first terry.collins
gets the id and the other one in perth just misses out (we actually
correspond for genie stuff - no known relationship). Not to mention
the two other terry collins's around campbelltown (who have suddenly
disappeared {:-).
Who gets what is a big problem.
I suppose something will evolve.
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