----- Original Message ----- From: "Wonko_The_Sane" <teknopup@BIGVALLEY.NET> To: "ietf" <ietf@ietf.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 1:33 AM Subject: Re: 0:212 BIZ > Why does ome have to pay for domain names? Ok, guess I am too much romanced > from the fidonet days when you can be listed for free. > > Need to free it up, too capitist oriented. damages communities. > > -Wonko > Many companies want to pay for domain names. They want to pay to have their nameservers properly managed. In some cases, they package the entire process in with their hosting and other Internet services. Also, someone has to pay for all these people to be flown around, first-class, to I* society meetings. 0:0 .ARPA is a very expensive domain to maintain. If you want to help encourage the free name approach, you might want to check out MOX. http://www.MOX1.com http://MOX.INC.new.net or http://www.MOX.INC Other places to look are.... http://www.NameSlinger.com http://www.New.Net http://www.NewRoot.com http://www.Name-Space.com .ONLINE will be getting a second Registry in September. That is also a popular new TLD. It will be useful for the people starting "virtual ISPs" where they assume that people have an always-on, IPv4 connection, with a dynamic 32-bit address for a site-prefix, and then expand the address space using that. http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00342.html 10514 INC 9264 ONLINE 7288 NET 6472 USA 4481 GROUP 4101 WEB 3891 TECH 3077 UK 2762 DESIGN 2570 SYSTEMS ========== http://www.adns.net CHICAGO, July 1, 2002 ADNS is pleased to announce that The AtlanticRoot Network (ARNI) has picked ADNS to provide domain registry services for its top-level domains BIZ, COM2, ETC, NOT and ONLINE. ADNS will take over registry operations today, July 1, 2002 at 00:01 UTC. === Jim Fleming 2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt 5:194 INC