There are two sides to every story, both right and both wrong.

The banner on AUNIC sucks - it is overbearing and may lead the less cluefull
to believe there is a stronger relationship between AUNIC & NR.  It has
potential to drag away many of our customers.

The "$100k" to set it up seems, to me, inflated. I co-lo servers on much
more than 45/8 for only $8k a year... so if the rest is hardware, even with
two systems and raid5 (where 0+1 would probably be better), NR needs to shop
around a bit for their hardware.

I offered to host AUNIC for only a small text link on only _some_ of the
pages, and definately not the lookup pages. I was too late, NR had already
closed the deal.

I asked auda about it, Chris informed me it was a 12 month contract, but
that (going from memory here) "that in 12 months auda would be so different
it wouldn't matter" or words to that effect.  I was also told, twice, that
it was "extensively checked by our solicitors".  wow, I'm impressed.

I'm looking forward to those 12 months rolling around, and auda calling for
competitive tenders from the industry, and seeing what turns up.  I know
I'll be bidding, and wont be using it to advertising a competing business.

Cheers,
Andrew.