On 06/06/12 15:54, Greg Soffe wrote:

I always thought it would be nice if people had to provide a company number to register a .co.nz ,�� so the NZ public could have a bit of faith in that there were actually legal entities behind the .co. names. Also if there was a requirement to be registered in a company name to get <company name>.co.nz squatters would have a hard time in NZ.

"co" stands for "commercial", not "company".

And as to your proposal, they do that in Australia. It's a classic example of making registration procedures so bogged down with rules to deal with any possible abuse that legitimate use suffers; the result is that registering a domain in com.au is a slow, bureaucratic and expensive process compared to getting under way in NZ.

One of the things I like about doing business in NZ is that it is so easy to do. As a country, unlike the US & Aus, we seem to have managed to get away from the idea that you shouldn't be able to trade unless you are blessed by an army of faceless bureaucrats. And that, IMAO, is a Very Good Thing.

-- don