At 20:11 26/08/02 GMT, David Farrar wrote:
Who said anything about abolishing co/net/org etc?
Open up the SLD to allcomers, but leave the existing registrations in place. People will be free to continue their .co.nz, can register new names in .co.nz if they want, but also have the choice of *.nz
Yep that would be the way to do it. I suspect in reality though this would effectively kill co.nz etc as the vast majority of registrants would want to go from say telecom.co.nz to telecom.nz.
Considering how small New Zealand is, it would have made sense to stick to .nz; In the Netherlands they work happely with .nl and that country has a population 15 million. If you would open it up now a lot of new income would be generated ofcourse, as all major domain holders would have to use it, but also could not afford to close down the .co.nz version either :) Let the money flow! Actually, I would like to see it; First one in use would be bart.nz Cheers Bart Kindt Director, Network Operations The Internet Group Limited New Zealand - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog