[69525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Apr 14 00:18:48 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 14 Apr 2004 04:10:39 +0000
In-Reply-To: <200404132239.i3DMd4Hw069577@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
brunner@nic-naa.net (Eric Brunner-Williams) writes:
> yup. i've been watching today's crop-o-spam. its pretty consistent, within
> 48 hours of a buy the domain shows up in a body of a spam, and the buy is
> for just one year. my business customers almost always throw 10 year buys
> at me.
the only people who benefit from the current pricing model are registrars.
if domains cost $300 a year we'd have less than 1% of the number we have now,
but the ones we have would actually get used. i have never received mail
from a domain ending in .biz that was not spam, for example.
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Paul Vixie
