[10043] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: usdns.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kozowski)
Thu Jun 12 00:27:52 1997
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:24:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Kozowski <kozowski@structured.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
I received the following from Jon Postel. Posted with his permission.
>Eric:
>
>Thanks for asking.
>
>The USDNS organization is esentially a broker for domain names in the
>US (and maybe other) domains.
>
>The idea seems to be that if a customer wants a domain name and does
>not know how to get it he can go to the broker and ask for what he
>wants. The broker then does the work by contacting the appropriate
>domain manager and getting the name registered and paying any fees due
>to the domain manager. The broker adds on his own fee and bills the
>customer.
>
>There seem to be several such services in operation.
>
>Some people seem to be glad to find such helpful services, other people
>seem to think that since these services charge you for something you
>could do directly yourself for less there is something wrong about
>their existance.
>
>In the world there are many such services, we all make tradeoffs every
>day between doing something ourselves vs using a service to do it for
>us. We all trade money vs time and/or knowledge and/or skill.
>
>The US Domain Administration does not make any recommendations positive
>or negative about such services.
>
>--jon.
>
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