On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 14:53, Craig Whitmore wrote:
Those days you could register es.co.nz (you can't now if this was not tak> en) (but they made rules up than you can't register domains as the 3rd level being the same as the 1st level domain) (Anyone know the reason for this? (there must be a good reason)) (I want to register nz.co.nz and us.co.nz)
Your out of luck, us.co.nz and nz.co.nz are taken... I _think_ that the restriction may have been lifted but I'm not 100% sure.
The restriction was lifted by InternetNZ late last year. Don Stokes can explain far better than me why there used to be a ban on TLDs being registered at the 3rd level but basically it used to cause problems for some old servers. Data indicated that the number of people likely to still be using such old software is very limited and that as most other TLDs allowed TLD names at the third level we should follow the trend. Incidentially ICANN is moving to ban ccTLD (and country) names at the 2nd level in gTLDs because some Govts have asked for this. But that is for political not technical reasons DPF - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog