Gee, netsurf, what a cool name! For a second there, I thought htat it wasn't your real name and that you were looking for a bbs or a warez site and accidentally stumbled onto nanog. My bad. -- Paul R.D. Lantinga #planting@vfi.com# Systems Administrator, Verifone IC "...'proactive' and 'paradigm', aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important?"-The Simpsons On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, NetSurfer wrote:

If you think $50 is bad, just wait and see if the $20,000/year/domain goes through...

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---------- From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Domain Rant. Date: Wednesday, March 19, 1997 6:00 PM

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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?

Not we. We don't expect a free lunch.

randy