Question Regarding Behaviour Of German Top Level Registry

  > "Paolo Bevilacqua" <pab at RMnet.IT> writes:
  > 
  > This order of magnitude (under 100$) and a smaller annual fee are 
  > perfectly reasonable. May be it's time for a recommandation, formal or 
  > informal from the ultimate namespace authorities ?

Now here we have some general material for the WG. ;-)

I do not think that recommending specific prices is a good idea because
costs differ locally and the service may also have variations.

The recommendation that I have been personally giving everyone running
TLDs is

	1) to publish their budgets and actual figures so that everyone
	   can verify that budgeting is done prudently and
	   no significant profit is being made,


	2) to make sure that those using the service and interested 
           can have influence on how it is provided,

	3) to make sure that pricing is as fair as possible.

In that order of importance.  You will observe that as far as the RIPE NCC
is concerned I take my own advice ;-).

Maybe these principles should be written up as a RIPE recommendation.
I have no time to do it though.

Daniel