You seem to misunderstand the basic economic issue.

There is a cost and in your case you are bearing it on behalf of your clients,
presumably as a loss-leader/value-add to attract customers to your other
billable products.

I regard the DNS as a public resource that should be professionally managed.
 Unless it is run on a volunteer basis (an arrangement that does not usually
lead to acceptable levels of service) then someones got to pay for it. 
That doesnt necessarily have to be paid for by charging fees but I'm a firm
believer in user pays so I think it should.

jon



>-- Original Message --
>Reply-To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
>From: "Dassa" <dassa&#167;dhs.org>
>To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
>Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:07:45 +1000
>Subject: RE: [DNS] RE: auDA to consider new names for .au
>
>
>|> -----Original Message-----
>|> From: Jon Lawrence [mailto:jon&#167;jonlawrence.com] 
>|> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:51 PM
>|> To: dns&#167;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.
>
>
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