13. Australia needs more domain extensions

Australia has 5 main domain name extensions currently available for businesses and individuals:

• .com.au
• .net.au
• .edu.au
• .gov.au
• .au

There are more and you can read all about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.au

But as an Australian resident, I have some opinions.

Why can’t we have more varieties that would interest the world to register our domain name extensions also?

Check out these ones from elsewhere:

• .so (Somalia)
• .ly (Libya)
• .cv (Cape Verde)
• .me (Montenegro)
• .co (Colombia)
• .at (Austria)
• .in (India)
• .ad (Andorra)

You have thousands of businesses from around the world, who can use these extensions creatively for their domain ones.

Australia can have some too, and I want to propose a few:

• .sy (sydney)
• .mb (melbourne)
• .pt (perth)
• .al (adelaide)

Would they work? They aren’t country-specific but we already have .sydney and .melbourne domain extensions. So, perhaps we can look at simpler and shorter ones?