The .au domain administration body (auDA) said last night it planned to sell off previously-prohibited geographically-based domain names in the .com.au and .net.au spaces in AU$500 bundles, as well as implementing a host of other significant changes.
auDA's New Names Advisory Panel has recommended the establishment of new second level domain names based on Australia's states and territories.
The number of Australian domain names has increased by 24 percent, according to the au Domain Administrator.
Professional practitioners now have a top-level domain reserved just for them, and the domain name industry is working hard to keep it that way.
Australia's second level domain name system for government may have an air of legitimacy, but bureaucratic bungling is confusing Web administration between levels of government, according to one German researcher.
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