With asn.au now charging... does that mean others who currently are not
charging, are planning to ?

.org.au for example.

I look after about 50 .org.au which are churches or Christian
organisations/charities and so on... 

with .asn.au being loosely defined as associations, or groups or
people... the sort who normally don't have much money or financial
structure... now being charged... I thought the question worth asking.

Will universities pay for .edu.au? governments pay for .gov.au? and will
CSIRO have to pay a big bucket of money for csiro.au ?

There is also info.au, conf.au, .id.au (some already charged I think?)
and so on... 

Is the Australian namespace now going to be a commercial only activity?
or is there still room for the charity there once was... I am sure
.org.au and .asn.au have a very small turnover compared to the
commercial .com.au and .net.au... whoever becomes a registry I am sure
could continue to offer to process these currently free domains as they
are...

A business can afford a domain name... even though Australian domains
are a almost double the price of .com/.net/.org, but small groups such
as churches, sports clubs and other collectives are often not in that
position....

Any comments?


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