Question Regarding Behaviour Of German Top Level Registry

Andreas Fink wrote:
> 
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> >No doubt ! My simple question: does the above justify a yearly fee of US$
> >390 ?
> >
> 
> They are simply not capable to do their work in a correct amount of time.

You are just telling nonsense. We are using DE-NIC services all the day and
we are very happy with them. The work is done professional and requests are
processed within at most three working days.

> In my opinion the price should be around 50-100$. The worst thing is that
> they charge more for works which take less time. Registering a nameserver
> is more expensive than registering a host (which might change more
> frequently). But we have to stick with that until their contract
> terminates. I strongly reccomend to find someone else who does that job
> until that time.
> 

Dont't talk about things you don't understand.

> Yust as a remark. Pinging their primary nameserver for germany ns.nic.de
> 193.196.32.1, returns 48% packet loss. Dont tell me that this is fast. If
> this server is slow, whole germany is slow...
> 

Connectivity to US is bad but connectivity to Europe is very well. My figures
show a loss rate of 7% for i.root-servers.net.

> 
> Andreas Fink
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