Let's paraphrase the argument that's being put forward.   Anand is
suggesting that somehow the .au price is a significant factor in companies
getting onto the Internet.

The price difference between a .com and a .au is all of $0.50 per week.  In
the context of a $100 000 expenditure on a website for a company turning
over $10M per year, the domain name price is sure a determining factor!

You'd save more money by eliminating one cup of coffee per day or by
switching off a file server on Sundays - AND you could afford to buy a few
additional .au domain names into the bargain.

Ron Stark



> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Goldstein [mailto:goldstein_david§yahoo.com.au] 
> Sent: Monday, 17 May 2004 4:25 PM
> To: dns§dotau.org
> Subject: Re: [DNS] Rationale of .au high price was: [DNS] Cat 
> got your tongue Chris?
> 
>  --- Anand Kumria <wildfire&#167;progsoc.uts.edu.au> wrote: 
> > However a lot of organisations are realising just how 
> expensive .au is 
> > and are making use of other gTLDs (e.g. cityrail.info, 
> > sydneyhomeshow.com, etc.) instead. With those kinds of
> 
> Cityrail, along with 131500, have both the the .info and 
> .com.au domains registered. Well, without looking up the 
> owners of the .com.au domains, there is a redirect from 
> cityrail.com.au to cityrail.com and both 131500.com.au and 
> 131500.info give the same result.
> 
> And sydneyhomeshow.com.au does not work.
> 
> Cheers
> David
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