For the purposes of satisfying the back dated modified AuDA rules for domain registration I was obliged to change my name! So now my birth certificate reads David Alan Myemail Booth.

Sorry mum.

I first got involved with domain name registration in 1995 when the sole registrar for all australian domain names was a part time employee of melbourne uni. They (male, singular) would process all requests on thursday nights. The only possible names were com.au and org.au Anyone could register either but only 8 characters. .edu was divided by state - be like nsw.edu.au etc. Net Registry forced the hand of melbourne uni and other registrars began to appear. Then the AuDA was created. They finally imposed some identity requirements and elementary validation so within australia, unlike the rest of the world, a domain name was associated with an entity of some kind. An innovative group forced the creation of the .id.au suffix for individuals starting the ball rolling by making echidna.id.au a home for its activities in education. It wasn't until the second decade of the 2000 millenium that AuDA flexed its statutory muscles to force every entity who registers a domain in the .au level to be legally identified. The .id space was reserved for individuals. That left me out in the cold.

myemail.id.au was first registered in 2011 and has been used legitimately since then
without any infringement of standards or conventions.

I registered myemail as a nickname for David Booth with a "global nickname registry"

Certificate for nickname myemail, is registered to: David Booth

but that wasn't enough to comply with AuDA!
It's gone from wooden to silver and then to gold because it's been around a while!

Anyway, I've now come to live here but I still dabble at

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