Did anyone actually read the article that rodney cited? I did read it and saw *NO* statement in it that fees actually were being increased.
It appears that the government has received permission to raise the domain fees back to $50.
permission is one thing doing it is quite another.
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Must be irritating for a foreign entity to be forced to pay a US tax for an international resource. Wasn't there something like this that created an uproar in Boston Harbor?
Well here is a happy foreign entity. I have even more reason now to point customers at our national registry which has working whois, working automatable registration, working redelegation, working (almost) billing etc. etc....
(with hat as per .sig)
-- Alex Bligh GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)
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