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kahn@drcoffsite.com (Larry Kahn) wrote:
>In article <435oa6$qg9@nntp.interaccess.com>, 
>kammeyer@thymaster.interaccess.com says...
>>
>>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......
>
>
>while we are on the subject here I'm a home user with a class c network 
>
>drcoffsite.com .... I do go through a local isp however.. what happens if I 
>refuse to pay and they remove my record does this mean to no-one can figure 
>out which are the primary and secondary names servers for my domain ????

If you refuse to pay then after 60 days someone can potentially get the
domain name drcoffsite.com.  At which point there will be two sites with
the same name.  If you have been removed from the name servers as well then
anyone trying to do anything with that domain name will get the IP address
of the *new* site and not yours.  If your domain name has *not* been removed
from the name servers then there will be a problem.  Upon checking for
clarification of the IP address with Internic it will be discovered that you
are improperly using the domain name registered to someone else and you
will probably get mail requesting correction of the IP address in the domain
name servers still pointing to your site.

>p.s. I hate saic... what is to stop them from charging 1000.00 per year 
>unfort. I see the need for some government legislation here to control 
>rates... much like we have to do with the phone companies etc. etc.

Who knows at this point.  If you don't like having to deal with saic then
get a domain name with the extension .us.  You'll have to deal with them over
fees probably as well.

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