At 7:25 PM -0800 3/19/97, Len Rose wrote:

So.. how many people here have domains predating the NIC contracts, who politely objected to paying and got their domains put on hold this week?

My objections were not polite, but I paid since I can't afford the service interruption. Always interesting to see monopoly forces at work... d/ -------------------- Dave Crocker +1 408 246 8253 Brandenburg Consulting fax: +1 408 249 6205 675 Spruce Dr. dcrocker@brandenburg.com Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA http://www.brandenburg.com Internet Mail Consortium http://www.imc.org, info@imc.org

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Len Rose wrote:

So.. how many people here have domains predating the NIC contracts, who politely objected to paying and got their domains put on hold this week?

One notably vocal opponent of domain name charges is hedging his bets or so it seems. Whois shows that MCS.NET is OK but MCS.COM is on hold. Seems to me that somebody has to pay for the service and I'd rather pay for it myself rather than have the U.S. taxpayer foot the bill. Note that I am NOT a U.S. taxpayer, not yet anyway. But that saying about no taxation without representation cuts both ways. I'm quite happy to see the tax money, and therefore the U.S. government, out of the loop. Some things are just done better by private enterprise. You'll note that the closer we get to the end of the NSI monopoly on .COM/.NET/.ORG domain names, the better their service is getting to be. Operationally speaking, I'd rather pay my money and be assured that the service would work reliably and consistently. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com