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From: Kayla Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, August 03, 1998 01:34 PM
Subject: Re: WC:>: Compaq pays #3.3 mil for a domain name?
>At 06:52 AM 8/2/98 -0400, Brent Eades wrote:
>>On 1 Aug 98, Tamra R. Heathershaw-Hart wrote:
>>
>>Personally, I don't see anything wrong with this, not at those kinds of
>>prices; rather the opposite, I don't see how they can really make any
>>money at it, not with domain registration fees at $35 a year. Unless some
>>far-thinking soul snapped all these up back before there was any fee for
>>registering with Internic... dunno.
>
>Being a technical and admin contact on several domains that were registered
>before there were any fees for domains .... let me assure you, you do have
>to pay yearly fees on those domains now. Furthermore, despite assurances to
>the contrary, many of these domains were back billed by our lovely
Internic.
I've read in one of the web trade magazines that the Internic is in such
chaos that something like 50% of the domain holders are NOT paying their
bills. I figure that most of these name squatters are not paying the fees.
The Internic can't figure out how to deal with several million people and
they don't dare cancel an account, for getting sued. The Internic is a
bureaucratic disaster.
I pay anyway, just to cover myself, but I attach a note in protest.
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Andreas Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andreas.com
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