Question Regarding Behaviour Of German Top Level Registry

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> Date: Tuesday, 19-Dec-95 04:30 PM
> 
> From: Arnold Nipper            \ Internet:    (nipper at xlink.net)
> To:   Max Gutberlet            \ Internet:    (mgutberlet at server.net4you.
co.at)

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> DE-NIC is run by University of Karlsruhe as a three-year contract. DE-NIC
acts
> as maintainer of the toplevel domain DE and still runs the last resort
> registry. Until Aug, 31th services were payed by the IV-DENIC and
registration
> of a secondlevel domain had to come via an IV-DENIC member. Since Sep, 1st
> everyone can use services from DE-NIC on a cost basis calculated on
figures for
> running the DE-NIC in 1995 and agreed upon by all IV-DENIC members.
> 

But I DO NOT want a continous service form DE-NIC except 3 lines in their
name server configuration file. EVERYTHING else is handled by us. 

Besides (I know this is impossible) but I would realy like to see the
figures you mentioned. Here is a little calculation (remember we are talking
maintenance not setup):

Change of Name Server
Address per year:                        2
Amount of time for change in
name server config:	        5 min. each
----------------------------------------------
			      10 Minutes (1/6 Hour)
One Hostmaster Hour	      150 US$
----------------------------------------------
variable Costs		       25 US$

Additional Costs per Entry	       100%    (should cover non technical tasks)
non-variable Costs 		       100%    (access to net, host cost a.s.o)

----------------------------------------------
accumulated Costs	        75 US$


The RIPE Staff should have a better view on what a hostmaster hour is worth
and how much Name-Server changes there are per domain and year. The 100% are
from my good old economics professor at the university.

Greetings
Max Gutberlet






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