[240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $320 for a .com domain registration?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Sat Aug 12 05:16:04 1995
From: poole@eunet.ch (Simon Poole)
To: jdd@vbc.net (Jim Dixon)
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 10:10:37 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: michael@junction.net, nanog@merit.edu, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950812003504.29256A-100000@vbc.net> from "Jim Dixon" at Aug 12, 95 00:40:08 am
> Jim Dixon writes:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
> > I just finished browsing http://www.britain.eu.net/naming-co/couk-form.html
> > which is the registration form for the .co.uk domain. They charge 300
> "a"
> > pounds for each domain registered, approximately $320 is US funds.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> You misunderstand. If you look more carefully, this Web page has
> been put up there by EUnet GB's sales department. Yes, they charge
> you two hundred pounds to register a domain name and provide name
> service for a year. Several other UK providers charge similar fees.
> But many US providers also have a standard fee for registering a
> domain name on your behalf and providing name service.
>
> EUnet GB is a private company, one of several British Internet
> providers, not an organization like the Internic.
The misunderstanding is that EUnet GB has two roles in this context,
on the one hand they actually -do- run the co.uk registry, on the other
hand they provide the service to their customers. I think browsing
through http://www.britain.eu.net/naming-co/ would make things clearer.
In particular the link to the form clearly states what the purpose.
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