On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Lucian Daniel Kafka wrote:

> >And when Melb IT ran the show; the costs were not *even* $12/domain
> >(probably more like $5/domain/year) :P
> 
> Registrars buy wholesale domains for more than that. .com.au/.net.au are 
> for example $50, others cheaper. The $11 is the auDA fee only, on top of 
> which AusRegistry puts its own fee.

When MelbIT ran the whole show (.com.au) they *did not* pay fees to auDA 
or to AusRegistry. The $5 I was mentioning was my guesstimate of their
operating cost per-domain per-annum and is probably on the high side
if anything.

Regards,

Saliya