On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, David Farrar wrote:
You are right that the variable cost of registering a domain name is very low. There have been significant costs involved in setting up the SRS, consultation on business and technical rules etc and that is why the registry fee has been set at $2/month to cover depreciation etc. A major cost is actually paying for DNS Name Server Operations incidentially. I personally hope that after a short while this fee will track downwards once costs of running the new registry are known as opposed to projections.
Surely the cost of implementing the SRS should be paid from the large cash reserves that Domainz and its sole shareholder InternetNZ have accumulated over the last few years. I'd still like to know why I can register a domain name in .com and .net etc for a fraction of the cost of doing it in New Zealand. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog