Marc Boschma

Watching the 2020 conference just now I found the suggestion to name the new Australian government portal to ourgov.com to be utterly misguided.

For one thing our goverment isn’t a company, but more importantly the domain is already owned!

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A much better solution would be our.gov.au. They can even have it for free.