Re: [ga] ITU Resolution 102 -- four years later

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

> You may understand that I fully share Elisabeth's feelings. But I am
> interested in your justification of that $ 70.000 out of my family pocket.
> What is it, if not an US tax? Loot?

It is the cost of the domain name. Sheesh. Have they thrown out capitalism
over in Europe? If you don't want to pay, then use the IP address. If you
don't want to use an IP address, find a TLD that better suits your needs. It
has never been a dotcom world and its certainly not a gTLD world.


                     -rwr




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----- Original Message -----
From: "J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] ITU Resolution 102 -- four years later


> On 00:00 19/10/02, Ross Wm. Rader said:
> >This might just be the most ridiculous line of reasoning that I've seen
> >for a long time. Either that or a very poor attempt at fear-mongering.
> >Which is it?
>
> Dear Ross,
> I just computed that I personnally paid more than $ 70.000 to Verisign
> those last years to support common interest projects (this is personnal
> matters but I trust you enough to disclose details to you if you so wish,
> and being in that trade you will understand quickly). This represents
> roughly 3000 DNs for various stages societal projects for France, Europe
> and developping countries. Some I gave up due to that cost. And I have
good
> rates.
>
> I currently duplicate than domain names and run much more of them, getting
> exactly the same service on my own machines under the experimental
dot-root
> project and experimental ULDs for a cost of $ 3000 a year (that machines
> [some being for free] support a lot of other services offsetting their
cost)
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> You may understand that I fully share Elisabeth's feelings. But I am
> interested in your justification of that $ 70.000 out of my family pocket.
> What is it, if not an US tax? Loot?
> jfc
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