[SPAM] Re: [LINK] web site choices.

[Peter Batchelor]

For comparison of domain registration offered by the various 
registrars in the .au space, visit http://www.whatsinaname.com.au/.
This has been put together by Josh Rowe. The variation in prices is 
quite remarkable.

Peter

At 07:11 PM 5/09/2006, Howard Lowndes wrote:


>If you are looking to attract a worldwide audience then probably 
>something that is not .au might be more effective.  Also the cheaper 
>.com.au I have come across is around A$25 for 2 years and you can 
>only register for 2 years.  The best price I have found for .com is 
>US$6.95 per year for 10 years and you can register for anything from 
>1 year to 10 years.
>
>Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>>I'm contemplating setting up my own web site and contributing to
>>1) the noise on the internet; or
>>2) the sum of the world's knowledge in the architectures
>>    of dynaminc systems
>>pick one.
>>Rather than start from complete scratch, I had a look at the sites 
>>of some of our colleagues:
>>Jan Whitaker    http://www.janwhitaker.com/personal/
>>Roger Clarke    http://www.xamax.com.au/
>>Tom Worthington    http://www.tomw.net.au/
>>Danny Yeee    http://danny.oz.au/blog/index.html
>>Tony Bary    http://tony-barry.emu.id.au/
>>Two things struck me:
>>1. the variation in addresses: .com, .com.au, .net.au, .oz.au and emu.id.au
>>2. the variation in licences
>>Roger has a page on copyright 
>>http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/CNotice.html and uses 
>>AESharenet <http://www.aesharenet.com.au/FfE/> which makes sense as 
>>he seems to be th3 chair of the organisation.
>>Tom's content is licensed under a Creative Commons 
>>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Australia License
>>Danny's book reviews have a straight copyright statement 
>>http://dannyreviews.com/copyright.html
>>I can't find any copyright or licence statements on Tony's or Jan's sites.
>>Questions to the list:
>>What sort of address should I go for?
>>What sort of licence should I assert?
>>What else do I need to consider?
>
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