🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <437es0$1dd@nntp.interaccess.com>, kammeyer@interaccess.com says...
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>wag@swl.msd.ray.com (William Gianopoulos {84718}) wrote:
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>>NSI currently gets $5.5 million annually for this process (evidently
>>a figure aggreed to in the competitive bidding process).
>
>Which is already astrononomical.  From what I understand, they have less than
>10 employees working on domain registration, and that's why they're so far
>behind.  Add to that perhaps 50,000 per year for hardware, maybe another 75k
>for some office space, say 30k per year for a net connection, plus employees.
>Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say they pay their clerical
>employees well and pay them $75,000 per year, plus a network admin or two --
>say 200k.  Add incidentals of say 200k, and you have like 1.3 mil or 
something.
>per year.  Hardly 5 million.  And that's just maintence.  I'm not even 
counting
>the 20some million they're going to get from new registrations.  They could
>double their employees, not charge a maintence fee, charge $20 for
>registration, and still make a 3 million dollar profit.  I can see how the
>govt. commissioned them to do it -- the net was different back then, and 
there
>weren't so many people who knew the beauracuracy of the NSF and also had the
>knowledge to set this up.  Anyway, now that they're only providing free 
service
>for edu and gov, what makes them guardians of com, org, and net?  Essentally
>they're only as powerful as site admins let them be.  What's to stop me from
>downloading the whois database, setting up the relevant servers, and declare
>myself the new internic?  Hell, if I can get site admins to listen and have
>athoratative name servers do their updates from me, I *AM* the internic.  I
>sure don't have the time or knowledge to set this up, but I know there are
>people that do. 
>
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If you can find poeople/site that have the necessary bandwidht and hardware 
I'm more than ready and willing to
add you as one of my roots servers... and I imagine now due to this uproar we 
could get most people on the net
to follow suit....


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