trellian
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From what I have been able to work out the pricing for .au domain registrations before and after transition.
BEFORE TRANSITION
$8.75 per year
$17.50 ex GST
$19.25 Inc GST for 2 years
Break up: (obtain from Neustar reports)
auDA makes: $2.25 ex GST ($2.48 inc GST) per domain per year broken up into these below amounts:
- $1.375 per year per per domain plus
- $0.605 per domain in registry per year
- $0.20 ($0.275 per financial transaction (add, renew, cor) per QTR works out to be around $0.20 per domain per year)
- $0.07 around this per domain in the form of a subsidy from ausreg for secondary DNS
AusReg $6.50 ($7.15 inc GST)
(note around $0.30 was paid out for marketing rebates/bounties so AusReg share at the end was around $6.20 ex GST
Gives our current Total $8.75 ex GST ($9.625 inc GST) Total per year per domain.
AFTER TRANSITION The new pricing under Afilias ex GST
$2.80 afilias (based on what we have been told)
$5.08 auDA (increase of $2.83 from prior $2.25 fee)
$7.88 Total per year (based on a 10% reduction of current wholesale costs)
So instead of seeing a $3.70 per year reduction the amount of saving moving to Afilias, we are given only $0.87 per year.
So yes there was definitely more that they could have passed on. I personally would have liked to have seen the wholesale price reduced down to $6.00 ex GST per year. $12 for 2 years. So a more of an even share of the saving that we would have passed in full to our registrar clients.
This is what I would have liked at a minimum:
$2.80 afilias
$3.20 auDA
$6.00 wholesale total
If you want to do some sums, with over 3 million names, (3,133,144) as of May 2018 that is $15,916,371 per year for auDA. Where as before it was $7,049,574 a nice additional $8,866,797 per year for auDA.
Over 4 years auDA will make $63,665,484 and extra $35,467,188, yet they only plan to spend $12mil over 4 years in marketing. I am not sure what their plans are for the Extra $23.5 million on top of what they already make to be used? Any one know?
I for one think that the $12mil in grants and marketing incentives to help grow the industry is very much needed and actually a great step forwards. Most registries do this, so about time auDA did as well. Plus the grant formats that we have been told, seems fair and accessible. But as with all marketing and grant budgets, they always requires a lot more work and not everyone will benefit from them or be able to claim all that they can per year. I would anticipate that less than half of the $12 mil over the 4 years will be claimed. I could be wrong but that seems to be far too common when there are such programs in place.. What will happen to the amount not claimed is currently not known.
As an industry we got 10% discount, $12mil over 4 years in grants that registrars can apply for, so this is a good start and better than what we had before, but in my opinion is still falling short of what could have been passed on and allocated. Hopefully auDA can reconsider the wholesale price and reduce this more.
Cheers
David
BEFORE TRANSITION
$8.75 per year
$17.50 ex GST
$19.25 Inc GST for 2 years
Break up: (obtain from Neustar reports)
auDA makes: $2.25 ex GST ($2.48 inc GST) per domain per year broken up into these below amounts:
- $1.375 per year per per domain plus
- $0.605 per domain in registry per year
- $0.20 ($0.275 per financial transaction (add, renew, cor) per QTR works out to be around $0.20 per domain per year)
- $0.07 around this per domain in the form of a subsidy from ausreg for secondary DNS
AusReg $6.50 ($7.15 inc GST)
(note around $0.30 was paid out for marketing rebates/bounties so AusReg share at the end was around $6.20 ex GST
Gives our current Total $8.75 ex GST ($9.625 inc GST) Total per year per domain.
AFTER TRANSITION The new pricing under Afilias ex GST
$2.80 afilias (based on what we have been told)
$5.08 auDA (increase of $2.83 from prior $2.25 fee)
$7.88 Total per year (based on a 10% reduction of current wholesale costs)
So instead of seeing a $3.70 per year reduction the amount of saving moving to Afilias, we are given only $0.87 per year.
So yes there was definitely more that they could have passed on. I personally would have liked to have seen the wholesale price reduced down to $6.00 ex GST per year. $12 for 2 years. So a more of an even share of the saving that we would have passed in full to our registrar clients.
This is what I would have liked at a minimum:
$2.80 afilias
$3.20 auDA
$6.00 wholesale total
If you want to do some sums, with over 3 million names, (3,133,144) as of May 2018 that is $15,916,371 per year for auDA. Where as before it was $7,049,574 a nice additional $8,866,797 per year for auDA.
Over 4 years auDA will make $63,665,484 and extra $35,467,188, yet they only plan to spend $12mil over 4 years in marketing. I am not sure what their plans are for the Extra $23.5 million on top of what they already make to be used? Any one know?
I for one think that the $12mil in grants and marketing incentives to help grow the industry is very much needed and actually a great step forwards. Most registries do this, so about time auDA did as well. Plus the grant formats that we have been told, seems fair and accessible. But as with all marketing and grant budgets, they always requires a lot more work and not everyone will benefit from them or be able to claim all that they can per year. I would anticipate that less than half of the $12 mil over the 4 years will be claimed. I could be wrong but that seems to be far too common when there are such programs in place.. What will happen to the amount not claimed is currently not known.
As an industry we got 10% discount, $12mil over 4 years in grants that registrars can apply for, so this is a good start and better than what we had before, but in my opinion is still falling short of what could have been passed on and allocated. Hopefully auDA can reconsider the wholesale price and reduce this more.
Cheers
David