[#XWM-610908]: Re: [enum-wg] ENUM Adoption - Does a business case matter?

Let me add a historical note. DNS started to be used in the second half of
the '80s when no one was thinking about charging for name registrations.
Only ten years later, when people started to realize that having a domain
name was useful, registries started to charge for them. If charging had
begun in the late 80s, we would have no Domain Name System today. Services
can be charged only when there is demand for them and this is true for ENUM
too.

Marco 

On 02/07/09 08:37, "Marian Ďurkovič" <md at bts.sk> wrote:
> 
> Do I read this right ?! Are you really charging upto 2500 € for one single
> delegation just because it happens a few subdomains higher in the ENUM tree?
> So a company or university with four digit extensions in NL would have to pay
> 100+ times more than another one in DE, AT or CZ ?! (note that CZ uses fixed
> numbering plan like NL)
> 
> This is unbelievable... User ENUM is hardly alive anyway, and such pricing
> schemes will kill it completely. And I bet this kind of pricing heavily
> violates EU anti-monopoly legislation, since a dominant player is not
> allowed to charge different prices for the same service.
> 

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