Richard

> I still reckon the "competition" policy which increased the price
> for a .ASN.AU domain from $0 to $60-odd takes the cake.

Fair point.  And case can be made for *some worthy* associations that use
.asn.au domain names.  But others are relatively/very wealthy.

What should the domain name fee for asn.au be, given the following wholesale
price structure?  I understand that the Reg(istry) Fee was the tendered fee.

auDA determined that AusRegistry will charge wholesale prices to registrars as
follows (www.auda.org.au/about/news/2001121201.html):

.au Domain  	Reg Fee  GST  auDA Fee  Total
.com.au 	$35.45  $3.55   $11.00    $50.00
.net.au  	$35.45  $3.55   $11.00    $50.00
.org.au	  	$0.00	  $0.00  $11.00    $11.00
.asn.au  	$19.09  $1.91   $11.00    $32.00
.id.au	  	$12.73  $1.27   $11.00    $25.00

--
.edu.au	$?	  $?	  $?	      $?
.gov.au	$?	  $?	  $?	      $?
.csiro.au	$?	  $?	  $?	      $?
.telememo.au	$?	  $?	  $?	      $?
--

It appears that .com.au and .net.au are already subsidising .asn.au (and .id.au,
.org.au and, possibly, the closed domains).


Ian


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Ian Johnston, Policy Consultant
Small Enterprise Telecommunications Centre (SETEL)

SETEL is a national small business consumer association
advancing the interest of Australian small business
as telecommunications and e-commerce consumers


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Archer [mailto:rha§juggernaut.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 7:39 AM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: [DNS] RANT (was: RE: [DNS] Thanks Melb...)
>
>
> At 22:47 +1000 10/10/02, David Moore wrote:
>
> >I for on am gradually moving all domains from Melbourne IT and have been
> >very dissatisfied with the handling of domains. My bitch is you have to
> >wait until the domain name comes up for renewal before you can move it,
> >unlike the .com system that lets you move the domain but just adds an
> >extra year to the renewal date as with TotalNIC.
>
>
> <rant>
>
> There's gold in them thar domains.
>
> GOUGE GOUGE GOUGE!
>
> I still reckon the "competition" policy which increased the price
> for a .ASN.AU domain from $0 to $60-odd takes the cake.
>
> The same smart cookie who thought that was competitive must have
> written the transfer policy.
>
> </rant>
>
>
> Aah, that's better.
>
>  ...R.
>
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