On Tue, Jul 22, 1997 at 04:40:31PM -0400, Jesse M. Caulfield wrote:
taking money for an essential service and trying to make a profit, is PURE EVIL and goes against everything that I belive "the net" should be.
Sure! Money, of course, is the root of all evil. I'm sure the Soviets could'a / would'a had a great, state run name service. You could get your domain registered while you wait in line for bread and toilet paper. Too bad that system failed!
NSI does a good job at what they do, and 50 bucks a year really isn't much to whine about.
I think most of us on this list are capitalists. The whole NSI/InterNIC situation is extremely weird. The real question is whence comes their authority. Particularly after their contract runs out. I don't think they should have been forced to operate at a loss, sans government funding. But the fees they chose are rather arbitrary, and 98 million dollars is a lot of money to operate a database. -- = Christopher Masto = chris@netmonger.net = http://www.netmonger.net/ = = NetMonger Communications = finger for PGP key = $19.95/mo unlimited access = = Director of Operations = (516) 221-6664 = mailto:info@netmonger.net = v---(cut here)---v -- yourname@some.dumb.host.com "Keep in mind that anything Kibo says makes a great sig." -- Kibo ^---(cut here)---^