For more info, see:
Schedule A, or the auDA registrars licence agreement.
http://www.auda.org.au/docs/auda-registrar-agreement.pdf



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Botros [mailto:mehanna§tpg.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:28 PM
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: Re: [DNS] Reseller Fees
> 
> 
> You can spend up to an half hour trying to understand this 
> MIT price clause:
> 
> AuDa requires it's accredit Registrars to pay AuDa  a fee of 
> $250 for each of it's
> resellers which have not previously been registered with AuDa 
> through a different
> registrar. Where the relevant reseller has previously been 
> registered with auDa by
> a different Registrar, there is an additional fee payable to 
> auDa of $AU25 each time
> the same reseller is  registered with auDa through a 
> different registrar. MIT will 
> charge the authorized reseller the applicable auDa fee within 
> 14 days of being
> invoiced for it by auDa 
> 
> >>>the most confusing clause in the whole agreement!!!
> 
> regards,
> 
> Marco Botros
> Operations Manager
> Spirit Servers
> mehanna§spiritservers.com.au
> http://spiritservers.com.au
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Adam Todd <auda&#167;todd.inoz.com>
> To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:04 PM
> Subject: RE: [DNS] Reseller Fees
> 
> 
> At 11:43 9/07/02 +0100, you wrote:
> >It is my understanding that auDA is charging this amount to 
> all registrars
> >for all resellers they appoint.
> 
> My goodness, I've NEVER heard of any such thing.
> 
> This moves closer and closer to abuse of market power it's not funny.
> 
> Imagine if Petrol Companies charges service stations a fee to 
> sell petrol!
> 
> Or Telstra charged a fee to ... oh hang on, they already own 
> the market.
> 
> I'll have to check various laws again, but I do recall 
> somewhere that a fee 
> can not be charged by an association or organisation to 
> become a user of 
> seller of the services.
> 
> In fact I'm sure it's an ACCC ruling.  I think we used it in 
> the TIO case.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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