In recent times a number of “industry experts” have been making comment that by 2012, there will be so much traffic on the internet, that it will effectively be unusable.

The video-sharing website YouTube, which only launched midway through 2005, generates the equivalent amount of traffic each month, that the ENTIRE internet did in all of 2000. Add the Social Networking sites that keep growing like Facebook and MySpace, plus the new craze of blogging, it is easy to understand that these predictions are being made.

Are they truly realistic though? Or is it just a case of the boy who cried wolf?

For years technology has adapted to the amount of use. The internet in three years will only be faster than it is now, and the “technology experts” will be proving the “industry experts” wrong. The amount of traffic across the Internet will be ten times what it is now, and websites will be many times more efficient than they are now.

The boy will still be crying wolf, but it will be more like Henny Penny the sky is falling, where at the end those Henny Penny experts will end up disappearing.

In the first two months of this year the ‘Australian Domain Name Administrator’ conducted an audit of the 18,000+ registered .org.au domains.  They found that approximately 23% do not comply with the eligibility criteria for .org.au domains.

For those who do not comply with the criteria, they are required to be updated or DELETED before 30th June 2009.

If you are responsible for, or are in a club which has a .org.au domain name, you should ensure you check that you fulfill the eligibility criteria, and that your details are correct.

Of course we can help you, if you are unsure if you currently meet the eligibility criteria – contact us via email with your query!!

Click here – for more detailed information from the auda – Australian Domain Name Administrator

Most people use them every day, and just take them for granted in some respects.  Domain names though are what guide us around the internet, and there is a lot more to them then meets the eye.

The first domain name was registered only 24 years ago.

It was www.symbolics.com, owned by the Symbolics, Inc.

a company who, back in the day, was a leading software
development firm with software projects designed back
in the 1980s which appear very much like modern
software designs seen today. For example, they had
developed a fully object-oriented operating system
called Genera, which today still exists as Open Genera,
for Alpha CPUs.
Their domain was registered on March 15, 1985
                  -- when the Internet was brand new

A simple word like “toys”, because of the huge number of searches for it daily, is worth millions of dollars.  Yes!!  Millions of dollars, for just a name.  In a close bidding war in March, Toys ‘R’ Us bought the domain name  Toys.com at auction for $5.1 million.  Putting it among the top 10 most expensive domain names on record.  This month Auction.com has sold for over $1.75 million.

Although there are some minor restrictions in Australia for the buying and selling of .com.au domains, the trend of domain name reselling is starting to warm up here also.  Earlier this month the domain webdesign.net.au  is reported to have sold for $10,000.  Not a bad return on something that would have cost less than $100.

So as you type in those domain names, there is so much more to them.

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