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Article #1669Re: INTERNET BEGINS FEE-BASED REGISTRATION
From: David Kammeyer
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00
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William Coney (wmconey@crl.com) wrote: : 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...... No kidding. If they collect 50 bucks from each person, that's a cool 5 mil. You can hire a *LOT* of clerical employees for 5 mil a year. I mean, what exactly goes into maintaining a domain? A few servers, a connection to the net, a whois database that's amazingly overloaded? I can see charging say, a $20 fee for registration, because that's in line with what I imagine it costs them... but $100? Get real. Maybe it's time to start some new top-level domains... -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Kammeyer kammeyer@interaccess.com "The general public is a | Yes, I use PGP. Finger me for my key. pretty stupid person" - Me | Linux -- The choice of a GNU generation! --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 169f8a,ca84f63eb97bc36d X-Google-Attributes: gid169f8a,public X-Google-Thread: f9f6d,ca84f63eb97bc36d X-Google-Attributes: gidf9f6d,public X-Google-Thread: 11488e,ca84f63eb97bc36d X-Google-Attributes: gid11488e,public X-Google-Thread: fa874,ca84f63eb97bc36d X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public X-Google-Thread: fe4ef,ca84f63eb97bc36d X-Google-Attributes: gidfe4ef,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,ca84f63eb97bc36d X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public From: kammeyer@thymaster.interaccess.com (David Kammeyer) Subject: Re: INTERNET BEGINS FEE-BASED REGISTRATION Date: 1995/09/13 Message-ID: <435oa6$qg9@nntp.interaccess.com> X-Deja-AN: 109990967 distribution: inet references: <434mdq$c3r@shell1.best.com> <4351vb$2re@crl6.crl.com> organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet service provider. reply-to: kammeyer@interaccess.com newsgroups: best.general,best.announce,best.www,ba.internet,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,talk.bizarre