Juha wrote:

Michael Newbery wrote:

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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/395.html

It seemed appropriate...

Heh.

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This seems to be two debates: 1. Do we need to open up the 2LD? As in totally open it up. Open slather. 2. Iff we don't want to open it up, do we need the .bank.nz domain?

Isn't it more likely that openly commercial new 2lds like bank.nz are simply attempts at bringing in revenue for InternetNZzzz....?

Hmmn 17 names at $24 a year each will be a grand total of $408 a year extra income. Not a huge incentive. Opening up the 2LD space to anyone would generate a huge amount of extra revenue though. In fact it would arguably be possible to then set the registry fee at a lower level than the generic top level domains of US$6 (we are about to move to US$11.16 for .nz). DPF - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog