So take it up with the ACCC then.

I'm struggling however to see how auDA is exercising market power, let alone
abusing it.

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>Reply-To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 21:04:09 +1000
>To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>From: Adam Todd <auda&#167;todd.inoz.com>
>Subject: RE: [DNS] Reseller Fees
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>At 11:43 9/07/02 +0100, you wrote:
>>It is my understanding that auDA is charging this amount to all registrars
>>for all resellers they appoint.
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>My goodness, I've NEVER heard of any such thing.
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>This moves closer and closer to abuse of market power it's not funny.
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>Imagine if Petrol Companies charges service stations a fee to sell petrol!
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>Or Telstra charged a fee to ... oh hang on, they already own the market.
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>I'll have to check various laws again, but I do recall somewhere that a
fee
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>can not be charged by an association or organisation to become a user of
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>seller of the services.
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>In fact I'm sure it's an ACCC ruling.  I think we used it in the TIO case.
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