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March 18, 2006
Where in the world is Ruth?
This has got Bleeding Edge fascinated. A reader, Ruth, has sent two emails from the domain aunz.au. They get through to us, but each time we try to reply, the message bounces. It's such an odd domain. Anyone know anything about it? And why it's problematic? And if you've got an alternative address Ruth, let us know, because it's quite frustrating. You might like to try a free account at Fastmail.fm, or a Google address.
Posted by cw at March 18, 2006 10:06 PM
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Charles, the fact that the email gets to you doesn't mean it's valid email address.
AUNZ is not a 2nd level domainn of the .AU namespace
Posted by: syd at March 19, 2006 03:51 AM
This from Google. Don't know if it helps. http://www.registry.aunz.net/index.html
Posted by: Reg at March 19, 2006 10:35 AM
Is it related to this registry?
http://www.registry.aunz.net/info.htm
opps left the address out of the previous post.
There are .COM, .NET and .ORG domains but not .AU !!!
Regards
RDee
Posted by: Ron Dempsey at March 19, 2006 01:40 PM
Ruth presumably thinks her email address is at aunz.au, even though it can't be. After all, you can send email from any domain, whether it exists in real life or just in your mind, if you configure your email client's "From Address" that way.
Posted by: Daniel Bowen at March 19, 2006 08:43 PM
Ruth says that some gremlins entered her email program during a particularly vulnerable phase of the moon and adjusted her return address to read aunz.au rather than aunz.net
We're pretty sure we'd be able to identify these gremlins in a line-up.
Posted by: cw at March 20, 2006 02:28 PM