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Re: Domain fees to rise...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Sun Sep 6 07:00:15 1998

From: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
To: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@mailorder.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 05 Sep 1998 19:03:36 PDT."
             <35F1ED78.A4B7FF5C@mailorder.com> 
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 11:25:24 +0100

> It appears that the government has received permission to raise the
> domain fees back to $50. 
...
> 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?

Well here is a happy foreign entity. I have even more reason now to
point customers at our national registry which has working whois, working
automatable registration, working redelegation, working (almost) billing
etc. etc....

(with hat as per .sig)

-- 
Alex Bligh
GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)



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