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From: Kayla Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 10:58 AM
Subject: RE: WC:>: Compaq pays #3.3 mil for a domain name?
>At 09:18 AM 8/4/98 -0700, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
>>Andreas wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>Urm...they *will* and do cancel accounts for lack of payment. Further, if
>you don't get a bill from them when the bill is actually due, they will
bill
>you even a year later. They told me they are still catching up on billing
>all of the domains from back before there was a fee.
And just how can they bill someone for a name before there was a fee?
I have several domain names that I registered way back before there was a
fee (incl. my own www.andreas.com). I pay the current fee, but under
protest, since they can't simply create fees on their own. There's a lawsuit
going on about this and maybe someday, I'll get my money back.
I've never heard of them cancelling an account.
What they say and what they do is two different things. They want people to
pay, but many simply don't. How else can one explain a Canadian company
sitting on 10,000 domain names? The fees alone would be $350,000/yr., but I
seriously doubt they are paying. It'd be far more profitable to invest in
the stock market.
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Andreas Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.andreas.com
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