On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Sean Doran wrote:
Looking around a bit, completely unscientifically and without more than eyeballing things, it appears that this practice is continuing, despite the back-pressure of a registration fee levied by the InterNIC.
Sean, you misunderstand. The fee is not a back-pressure, on the contrary, it is an IMPETUS. It's like this... Company: I want one of thos domain thingies. Internic: That'll be 50 bucks. Company: 50 bucks? I'll take 5 then; put it on my VISA.
issue on any front, and whether it really needs fixing by perhaps us suggesting that subsequent domains be charged on an exponential scale, with proceeds going into the costs of maintaining the worldwide DNS, particularly with respect to user-and-administrator education.
Someone posted some stats on com-priv a week ago that would indicate that Internic is raking in $10 million per annum with the current fees. Are you sure anything needs fixing here?
(NANOG or I*-something-or-other); I'm just wondering if I'm completely out-to-lunch on this one.
You have a good idea there in establishing a funding link between the registrants of domain names and the people who operate the registries and the root nameservers. Of course, most registries are already funded by domain fees like the Internic's $50. The missing link is funding for the root nameservers. Some people also feel that DNS registrations should fund ISOC/IAB/IETF/IANA or some sub or superset thereof. ftp://ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-ymbk-itld-admin-00.txt covers some of this as does the POISED95 WG
all clearly able to fit (at least for the moment) into <eighty-subdomains>.BigCompany.COM.
I think human beings like flat hierearchies. In management. In GUI menu systems. And now in DNS. Certainly they seem to be more efficient in management and in GUI menu systems and even B+ Trees vs. binary trees. Maybe they really are more efficient in the DNS as well.
If people think this sort of thing is OK, I'll shut up now.
I don't think there really is anything that we can do about it other than to accomodate it. I fully intend to have a couple of dozen domains just for myself and run virtual WWW servers on my home LAN in the next century. But by then that will be the normal state of affairs. The plans to open up the top level domain space by adding 15 or more new international top level domains per year will make the landscape rather more interesting. http://www.kirk.tlhIngan.alt :-) Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com