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

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

Thanks, William. I know that the costs vary greatly, but I wanted to be sure
that we didn't miss noting it. I've seen the cost dropping to what appears
to be zero, when something else subsidizes it, and I am not quarelling with
that business model.  But thanks for your very nice clarification!


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From: William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 9:22 PM
To: Cade,Marilyn S - LGA
Cc: Kent Crispin; ga@dnso.org
Subject: RE: [ga] there are more cost factors..


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Marilyn,

There are places to get DNS service for a domain name for free, as well as
other services for free.  With domain name registration as low as $10/yr for
com/net/org domains, there are a lot of people who have previously not
registered domains who now can, and use various existing free services to
get
use out of their new low cost com/net/org domains.

I cannot post to the GA list currently because I, correctly, identified Joe
Baptista as a loon, but I wanted to post this for your edification anyway.

On 01-Mar-2000 Cade,Marilyn S - LGA wrote:
> 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. 
> 
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> kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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