🚀 go-pugleaf

So then kammeyer@thymaster.interaccess.com (David Kammeyer) got up and wrote:
| 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...

So?  Sounds like you've identified a market opportunity.  Now that
InterNIC is charging for its service, *YOU* have a chance to undercut
them.  Go to it, Mr. Vanderbildt.


(Jeez, what is with people these days?  You'd think this kind of thing
would be obvious by now.)
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j h woodyatt             | "I am a balloon of SHAME."
system software engineer |                --Soren Ragsdale
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