Truely amazing.

Note that a quick study already shows that most people are aware that domain
names usually come cheap or not too expensive, generally someone that wants
a domain name usually visits a dozen website before choosing one. So maybe
in your case that clients is like the exception to the rule..

Basically i guess it all comes down to educating people on your website, if
you tell them exactly what they get and ( if you're not too greedy ) show
them that what they'll pay for somewhere else that really takes 5 seconds to
setup, and that charging $216 for that is a tad excessive..

Ginge



-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Stark [mailto:ronstark§businesspark.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 5:43 PM
To: 'dns§lists.auda.org.au'
Subject: RE: [DNS] Your Domain is Registered


Let me rephrase that - the fee was $216 (on top of the $198) to have the
domain name pointed to their DNS for 2 years.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ginger FISH [mailto:ginger-fish§scifi-art.com]
Sent: Thursday, 16 May 2002 5:24 PM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: RE: [DNS] Your Domain is Registered


What do you mean by 2 years delegation, Ron ?
Because "delegation" takes 5 seconds and usually lasts a lifetime ( or the
lifetime of your registrar ) ..

Ginge

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Stark [mailto:ronstark§businesspark.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 5:20 PM
To: 'dns§lists.auda.org.au'
Subject: RE: [DNS] Your Domain is Registered


One of my clients rang me today, and told me they'd just paid $414 to
Internet Registry in response to the same solicitation.  For that $414 they
got 2 years registration of a dot-com, with 2 years delegation.

What gets me is their inference that only .com is international.  I must
tell my UK customers that!

Nearly 500% mark-up isn't bad!

Ron


-----Original Message-----
From: Mr Grumpy [mailto:notahappychappy§yahoo.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, 16 May 2002 5:07 PM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: [DNS] Your Domain is Registered


For a full summary of why you should register your
.com name urgently, please read on.

Register internetregistry.com TODAY for the following
important reasons:

PROTECTION Anybody across the world can at any time
register internetregistry.com and they have that is
why we are advising you on our mistakes

EMAIL People constantly leave off .au when sending
email. If someone else (such as your competitors or
anybody else) has the .com name registered, they
receive your email and not you! So dont send any big
fat checks to us at internetregistry.com because we
wont get them

PREVENTING CONFUSION There is a huge amount of
confusion between .com and .com.au websites. Dot com
is the first thing people think about when they think
Internet. Fortunately for us the people who registered
internetregistry.com haven't got a website and cant
decieve our customers. You can visit aunic.com.au or
aunic.net.au for that.

GLOBAL IMAGE .com.au was designed solely for
Australia, whereas .com is the global Internet
namespace. A .com Internet address gives you a more
international and professional image and is necessary
for any company serious about protecting their
intellectual property rights. Registering a .com name
is also essential for any business even considering
doing business overseas. Fortunately we only want to
rip off the austalian public, its easy with no
governing body protecting them.

Register your .com name TODAY! Registration costs only
$99 per year ($198 per 2 year period including GST).
Dont tell anyone you can get it elwhere for half that
price...

PS you cant unsubscribe and by the way this is not
spam because we got your records from a publicly
available database.

THanks


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