$5 is not possible either, you need to remember that ther is the $11 charge
to auDA from the registry.

$11 + $(Registry charge) + $(Registrar costs) = Total$

It would nearly be impossible for the auDA to restrict pricing on any and
all TLD's other than at the registry record end.

Michael-Pappas.

>>$5AUD a year on any sub-domains under them as a condition of
> registration.
>
> what a ripp off ..
>
> i'd rather have www.geocities.com/~auDA for free !
>
>
> Ginger
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dassa [mailto:dassa§dhs.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 9:45 PM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: RE: [DNS] RE: auDA to consider new names for .au
>
>
> |> -----Original Message-----
> |> From: Jon Lawrence [mailto:jon§jonlawrence.com]
> |> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:47 PM
> |> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> |> Subject: RE: [DNS] RE: auDA to consider new names for .au
> |>
> |>
> |> so who gets magpies.footy.au?
> |>
> |> Wests (NRL)?
> |> Collingwood (AFL)?
> |> Port Adelaide (SANFL)?
> |> etc
> |> etc?
> |>
> |> I tend to agree with you that creating new 2LDs adds very little
> value to
> |> the .au domain space.  Lets give id.au a go and see how it
> fares...much
> |> the same as the recently released me.uk I suspect (ie noone wants
> them).
> <SNIP>
>
> I disagree.  There is a need for some additional 2LD's.  Not to put
> anything against id.au, I think having some geographical names under
> (state).au at a fixed cost would be beneficial and meet some consumer
> demand.  What I don't want to see is hostnames under such 2LD's costing
> the same sort of price as *.com.au hostnames.  I would like to see a
> reasonable price charged for (city).(state).au and a fixed price of say
> $5AUD a year on any sub-domains under them as a condition of
> registration.  The (city) level should have strict criteria for the
> body acting as the registry on the 3LD.  For instance the body should
> offer registrations in a particular format that would be consistant
> across all the 3LD's and at a set price.
>
> Will most likely expand on this in a submission to AuDA.
>
> As for other 2LD's, given the use of com.au etc, if the geographical
> names were introduced, there may not be any need to expand in other
> directions for some time.
>
> Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.
>
>
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