Question Regarding Behaviour Of German Top Level Registry

> From: afink at ping.ch (Andreas Fink)
> Subject: Re: Question Regarding Behaviour Of German Top Level Registry
> Cc: local-ir at ripe.net
> 
> >-------- REPLY, Original message follows --------
> >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.
> 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.

Just for clarification. The University of Karlsruhe runs the DENIC
on a fixed prize rate for three years on behalf of the IV-DENIC which
is a consortium of German service providers. Initially it was intended that
everybody who wants service have to become a member of the IV-DENIC and
share the costs.

As for some reasons it has become necessary to sell service on a per domain
base the IV-DENIC started to install the model with the prizes which are
discussed at the moment.

NOTE: You buy the DENIC service from the IV, not from the University of
      Karlsruhe.

Beside of that everbody is still free to choose if he wants to become a
member of the IV-DENIC or buy service on a per domain base.


Sabine Dolderer

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