Quoting Ian Smith on Thursday April 25, 2002:
| 
| There appears to be no way that AuDA is going to demand less than $11 as
| its slice of any domain names registered in Australia henceforth, as
| this is as close as the previously free .org.au domains come.
| //
| And why would AuDA be pushing such a proposal?  Well, there's that $11
| per domain fee, so AuDA has a vested interest in growing, not just
| managing, the .au namespace.  And perhaps there'll be more auction$ ..

How can you justify these baseless remarks? auDA has always maintained
the $11 fee would reduce as the number of domains increased. Where has
it stated anything to the contrary? "No way" indeed.

auDA's interest is to implement the recommendations of the open public
policy development panel last year which came to the conclusion that
calls for proposals for new 2LDs be sought.

Did you make your submission to the Name Policy Advisory Panel a year
ago when the prospect of new 2LDs was being discussed?

kim