|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Jon Lawrence [mailto:jon§jonlawrence.com] 
|> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:51 PM
|> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
|> Subject: RE: [DNS] RE: auDA to consider new names for .au
|> 
|> 
|> >That would be a shame. There is no justification for such fees on
|> >hostnames past the 2LD level.
|> 
|> - there isn't?? So there are no costs involved in setting up 
|> and maintaining sub-domains?  Servers are free? Staff don't need to
be paid?

You are talking to someone who currently handles over 250,000 hostnames
and those are growing at a rate of about 1450 a week.  I know the costs
involved.  DNS is not that expensive.  We provide our hostnames for free
and have done for 3 years.  If we can manage it, I don't see why others
need so much money to do the same thing.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.