[19317] in North American Network Operators' Group
Domain fees to rise...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Sat Sep 5 22:06:33 1998
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 19:03:36 -0700
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@mailorder.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
It appears that the government has received permission to raise the
domain fees back to $50.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,26004,00.html
Interestingly, the article continues to indicate that the additional fee
is, in fact, a tax, and the NSF's *agent*, Network Solutions, will
collect it on the Government's behalf.
Must be irritating for a foreign entity to be forced to pay a US tax for
an international resource. Wasn't there something like this that created
an uproar in Boston Harbor?
/rlj
