Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
Joe Greco wrote:
It's not the initial assignment fee that's really an impediment, it's moving from a model where the address space is free (or nearly so) to a model where you're paying a significant annual fee for the space.
We'd be doing IPv6 here if not for the annual fee. As it stands, there isn't that much reason to do IPv6, and a significant disincentive in the form of the fees.
... JG
I have to agree ... why such high charges when a similar service like GoDaddy provides (domain name registrar) is $15 a year?
Is it REALLY X times the level of difficulty of registering a domain name, and thus the charges are justified? I will let someone who is very technical explain this to me.
Cordially
Patrick
There are 117,351,239 domain names registered. If I had to guess, there are less than 1% of that total number in IP assignments (not allocations), but I don't have the patience to go compile those statistics. GoDaddy exists based on volume, which we don't have the same scale with IP assignments. -Dave