Ron, you been batting for both teams? You have also slammed into providers
for "ripping off" consumers  by an extra few cents per day or $50 per year!

Brad


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Stark" <ronstark&#167;snapsite.com.au>
To: <dns&#167;dotau.org>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 2:42 PM
Subject: RE: [DNS] Rationale of .au high price was: [DNS] Cat got your
tongue Chris?


> 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&#167;yahoo.com.au]
> > Sent: Monday, 17 May 2004 4:25 PM
> > To: dns&#167;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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