$1.8 was the quote from the Australian.

-----Original Message-----
From: DPF [mailto:david§farrar.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:34 PM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: [DNS] Sale of Domainz


Subscribers here may be interested in the announcement that Domainz
(the former .nz registry and now major .nz registrar) has been sold to
Melbourne IT for NZ$2 million.

Full details of the sale are at http://www.internetnz.net.nz/sale

The sale occurred because InternetNZ as market regulator, and registry
owner, believed it was a conflict of interest to also own a
competitive registrar past the transition period.

DPF
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