As the owner of a so-called "historical and unserviced" domain, I had hoped
that there would be some competition by now.  Melbourne IT's actions
regarding historical domains reflect it's bureaucratic culture,  academic
origins and monopoly position.  I will never voluntarily pay money to this
rapacious bunch of twits.

The fact that INTIAA and ISOC-AU consented to M-IT's organised plunder does
those organisations no credit, either.

Andrew Donald

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Davies <kim&#167;ii.net>
To: dns&#167;intiaa.asn.au <dns§intiaa.asn.au>
Date: Thursday, 9 October 1997 18:16
Subject: Re: DNS: Don Heath proposes using the $50mil NSF pool to fund IAHC


><snip>
>I do agree this stagnation of the domain issue is not a good
>sign. Melbourne IT pushed back it's deletion of historical
>com.au domains due to that controversy at the start of the
>year, but according to
>
>   http://www.melbourneit.com.au/com_au/renewals/contents/\
>   renewals-update.html
>
>those domains that weren't paid for by yesterday now have 21
>days before their air supply is cut.
><snip>