> Since I prefer written record to aging and fallible memory, here is how NSI
> explained the need to impose payments, in its "Fee for Registration of
> Domain Names" (September 13, 1995), which is included on the CD-ROM that is
> bound with the Domain Name Handbook.
Was the following NSI or NSF's explaination?
It sure sounds like it comes from an NSF pen/keyboard as it expresses the
pain of making the NSI cost+fee payments.
I hardly think NSI would complain about its discomfort of receiving
payment on its invoices to NSF or its pain and grief caused by depositing
those government issued checks.
(Of course, a quick "doing of the numbers" would have indicated to anyone,
that this change would result in vastly more revenue to NSI, so I doubt
that they really would have opposed the change, especially as Amendment #4
mentions NSI's letters to NSF requesting the change.)
> "The exponential growth of the Internet, due mostly to the connecting of
> commercial organizations to the Internet over the past couple years, has
> had a directly proportional affect on the registration activity of the
> Registrar. The increased activity, with the corresponding growth of
> operating costs, have resulted in funding requirements exceeding the
> National Science Foundation's budget. In addition, it is appropriate that
> Internet users, instead of the U.S. Federal Government, pay the costs of
> domain name registration services. Accordingly, the Registrar will begin
> charging a fee for the registration and maintenance of domain names in the
> "COM", "ORG", "NET", "EDU", and "GOV" domains."
--karl--
