Gordon Cook wrote:
>karl your assertion is false. When the rates increased, NSF had to pay for
>every domain name. it had established a limited budget to do this. NSF
>INITIATED the charging.....NOT NSI....and the agreement warned that
>charging might start before it was done.
My recollection, based on a document I cannot find at the moment, was that
NSI initiated the request to charge a $50 per year domain name registration
fee, and NSIF accepted the proposal, implemented as Amendment 4 of the
Cooperative Agreement.
Since I prefer written record to aging and fallible memory, here is how NSI
explained the need to impose payments, in its "Fee for Registration of
Domain Names" (September 13, 1995), which is included on the CD-ROM that is
bound with the Domain Name Handbook.
"The exponential growth of the Internet, due mostly to the connecting of
commercial organizations to the Internet over the past couple years, has
had a directly proportional affect on the registration activity of the
Registrar. The increased activity, with the corresponding growth of
operating costs, have resulted in funding requirements exceeding the
National Science Foundation's budget. In addition, it is appropriate that
Internet users, instead of the U.S. Federal Government, pay the costs of
domain name registration services. Accordingly, the Registrar will begin
charging a fee for the registration and maintenance of domain names in the
"COM", "ORG", "NET", "EDU", and "GOV" domains."
Ellen Rony Co-author
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