RE: [ga] there are more cost factors..

["Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>]

Greetings:

Aside from being the .VI domain admin, i also own an ISP in the Virgin
Islands. I looked into this once- it appears that AT&T charges $ 25.00 a
month for name service (count on AT&T to be the highest!), but if you have a
web site with AT&T (minimum $ 150 US a month) they give you the name service
free.

We (COBEX INternet ISP) provide the name service free if the client is doing
web hosting or web advertising with us. Otherwise, we charge $ 5.00 US a
month.

Our commercial web hosting rates start at $ 19.95 US a month (with name
service).

Many server farm services will "park" your domain free for 1 year (that
means provide name service, along with an 'under construction' web page-
just to try to get you (the client) to sign up for value added services.
Just for kicks, i registered a domain name and 'parked' it with a compny
called VERIO. after 1 year, they sent me an e-mail asking for $ 49.00 a year
for the parking and 'under construction' sign web page. I said i wouldn't
pay it, so what they (VERIO) does is put advertising for themselves on the
parked domain.

http://www.VirtualVirginIslands.com

I hope this gives all of you some insight into the pricing policies to be
found around the net.

regards

Peter de Blanc



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
Cade,Marilyn S - LGA
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 9:08 PM
To: 'Kent Crispin'; ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] there are more cost factors..


I haven't seen any acknowledgement that there is more to using a domain name
than registering it; someone has to host it, etc.  Where is that little cost
item discussed?  Clearly, ISPs in the U.S. do that often without a separate
charge, but that isn't always the case.

Marilyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Crispin [mailto:kent@songbird.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 6:41 PM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] Who has standing


On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:47:52AM +1300, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> >
> Nii is absolutely right.

Indeed he is.

> There are many people without computers who participate on the Net.  They
> have the right to be at large members in ICANN.
>
> But these are largely not the people who register Domains or  have
> otherwise a stake in the DNS to justify their membership of the DNSO GA.

People who don't have domain names clearly have a stake in the DNS,
because they will get domain names in the future.  For example, policies
that led to domain names costing hundreds of dollars each have vastly
different consequences than policies that lead to domain names costing a
dollar.  By your reasoning developing countries that currently have very
few domain names don't have any stake in the DNS, and can therefore be
ignored.  That is patently false.

--
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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