🚀 go-pugleaf

The only problem with this is that it says that the fees collected willgo 
to improve the infrastructure of the Internet. Unfortunately, government 
support of that stopped back in April. Sounds pretty bogus......

rpwhite (rpwhite@best.com) wrote:
: (Interesting piece of email showed up in my box this morning. It is
: appended in it's entirety below. I know it was misaddressed but I had 
: complained to them about it in the past and they didn't give a hoot so 
: the moral is, if you use a mailing list, be sure you know who is on it. Even 
: though it is going to t.b, I did not make this up. It a "you heard it here 
: first" thing. Anyway, it looks like if you were thinking about getting a 
: domain name that you can avoid the new $100 fee if you do it before 18 Sept.)
: ________________________________________________________________________
: 7.	DRAFT NEWS RELEASE

: FOR RELEASE 6 A.M. EDT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1995
: Contact:	Dave Graves, Business Manager
: 		Network Solutions
: 		703-742-4884

: INTERNET BEGINS FEE-BASED REGISTRATION	


: 	(HERNDON, VA)  September 18, 1995 -- Internet domain name registrants
: will begin paying registration fees immediately in order to improve 
: registration processing and fund Internet infrastructure improvements.
: Beginning at 4 p.m. today, a $50 annual fee will be imposed on all five
: top-level domains: commercial, educational, government, network and non-profit
: organization (.com, .edu, .gov, .net, . org) domain name registrations.  Until
: now, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has subsidized these registrations,
: which currently total more than 100,000 domain names.  A five-week backlog has
: developed in processing domain name registrations.