[92917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dns - golog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Thu Oct 19 19:36:27 2006
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:35:25 -0400
To: Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45380200.4070901@thomasleavitt.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 06:53 PM 10/19/2006, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
Hi Thomas!
[ snip ]
>... finally, why go through all this hassle for what has to be an
>utterly trivial amount of money resulting from people being presented
>with something totally unexpected and clicking on a link therein... how
>valuable are these people as customers? I can't imagine much...
> a) is there enough revenue here to consider?
This isn't something that's so easy to determine, but
golog and others must have a financial model in order
to be pursuing it.
Here's a visionary article related to this topic, but
at the root server level, even more of a delicate issue,
but with the same principles as the one we're discussing:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/techies_wanna_do_policy/
And this article shows the convenience of falling back
on standards when they serve your purpose:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/paul_vixie_on_fort_nocs/
YMMV:
Best Regards,
Martin
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