[19321] in North American Network Operators' Group
not so (was) Re: Domain fees to rise...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sun Sep 6 10:00:39 1998
In-Reply-To: <199809061025.LAA11552@diamond.xara.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 09:42:27 -0400
To: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Gordon Cook <cook@cookreport.com>
Did anyone actually read the article that rodney cited? I did read it and
saw *NO* statement in it that fees actually were being increased.
>> It appears that the government has received permission to raise the
>> domain fees back to $50.
permission is one thing doing it is quite another.
>...
>> 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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