On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Steen Andersen wrote: > Hi > > In Denmark the .DK domain is administered by "DK Hostmaster", a "not for > profit" company! > A .DK domain cost approx. USD 9 pr. year! > > You can read more here https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/english > > If it is possible in other parts of the world - why not Uganda!!
Economies of scale. In the early 2000-2002 years when I was actively involved in .ug domain registration, we got only a handful of requests per year. Because of this, the cost per domain was very high because the costs of running the registry were spread over a very small number. At that time the average ISP had a 128kbps or 256kbps link which it then gave dialup access to its customers as primary business with a few wireless customers. In fact we would flock to any ISP that had anything like a 512kbps link. As the number of internet users grew, the costs of registering a .ug domain have been going lower and lower almost every year because larger numbers of people registering .ug domains means that the cost can be spread over more people and thus cost per domain drops considerably. The same is reflected in costs of internet access. You can't compare the economies of Denmark and Uganda, neither can you realistically compare the number of internet users in Denmark as compared to Uganda. At the moment, even just our neighbour Kenya is so far ahead of us economically with GDP at $66bn as compared to Uganda's measly $42 billion. How do you then compare us to Denmark whose GDP at $201bn is 5 times that of Uganda? Noah.
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