A survey conducted for .au administrator auDA about Australians’ attitudes towards various top-level and second-level domains yielded some interesting results.
Recognition that .com.au and .net.au are associated with Australian businesses was quite high at 92% and 87% respectively, but you could be excused for wondering why it isn’t higher – perhaps respondents were thinking of the way local subsidiaries of foreign companies can register domains in those spaces.
The use of a .com,au domain was the most common way that the 1003 respondents decide whether a business is Australian or not (71%). This was followed by checking the company’s contact details (46%).
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