news Australian Domain name owners say they are being ripped off by the domain governing body

[mems]

This just hit the news.

The owners of Australia's more than three million domain names are being ripped off by the organisation governing domain names.

The .au Domain Administration Authority is the body that governs and distributes all .au domain names which includes .com.au and .net.au and domain name users claim as a result of auDA's actions the wholesale price paid for domain names is about double what it should be.

http://www.smh.com.au/small-busines...n-name-owners-ripped-off-20170807-gxqpzs.html

 

[Commerce]

Well, given this gem:

"The wholesale price of a com.au domain name is $14.95 every two years with domain names then sold by retailers such as Melbourne IT which charges $153 every two years for a com.au domain name."

It does kind of look that way.

 

[domaintrades]

Greed, greed and more greed!

 

[zurc.net]

stick to .com, .net and .org or just .com.... .com.au is garbagggeee

 

[Name Trader]

stick to .com, .net and .org or just .com.... .com.au is garbagggeee

Not for Aussies

 

[pablohc86]

another step in the direction to keep investors and spammers away from domains..

 

[Corey]

I purchase my .com.au's @Uniregistry cost = US$13.48 for 2 years.

Cheers
Corey

 

[john de laine]

australian businesspeople (endusers) are generally behind the rest of the world in thinking, they still have a "local" mindset and as such are easily conditioned to feel that .com.au is better than .com/net, given time (hopefully) this will change

 

[Name Trader]

australian businesspeople (endusers) are generally behind the rest of the world in thinking, they still have a "local" mindset and as such are easily conditioned to feel that .com.au is better than .com/net, given time (hopefully) this will change

That's as stupid as saying all European countries have this same "local" mindset.

 

[Corey]

maybe @AusRegistry @AusRegistry_au
&
@auDA @auda

Could comment

Cheers
Corey

 

[lock]

Regardless of extensions they will try charge same for a dot com to anyone that doesn't know any better.