[LINK] Re: .asn.au Domain Name Registrations (fwd)

[Paul Day]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Malcolm Miles wrote:
> >BTW, one of the reasons there's bugger all registrations under id.au at
> >the moment is that the users are forced to register their domains at the
> >fourth level - e.g. xxx.fauna.id.au.  There just ain't no demand for
> >domains at that level.

The reason this was done was because it was easy to split .id.au into
manageable domain spaces that a single individual could provide time and
infrastructure to maintain with ease. Once a .id.au zone got too big for a
that person to handle or to provide resources for without major cost, the
zone was to be closed to further registrations.

But I agree, it would be much nicer to have .id.au registrations rather
than .*.id.au registrations.

> Perhaps we just give everyone a number at the third level eg:
> 123456.id.au. Blocks of numbers could be allocated to each id
> registrar.

To me that's starting to defeat the purpose of the domain name system.
DNS's whole idea is that human's prefer names while your network needs
number.

Nice idea though - but plenty of other ways to skin a cat.

PD

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