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I received the following from Jon Postel. Posted with his permission. >Eric: > >Thanks for asking. > >The USDNS organization is esentially a broker for domain names in the >US (and maybe other) domains. > >The idea seems to be that if a customer wants a domain name and does >not know how to get it he can go to the broker and ask for what he >wants. The broker then does the work by contacting the appropriate >domain manager and getting the name registered and paying any fees due >to the domain manager. The broker adds on his own fee and bills the >customer. > >There seem to be several such services in operation. > >Some people seem to be glad to find such helpful services, other people >seem to think that since these services charge you for something you >could do directly yourself for less there is something wrong about >their existance. > >In the world there are many such services, we all make tradeoffs every >day between doing something ourselves vs using a service to do it for >us. We all trade money vs time and/or knowledge and/or skill. > >The US Domain Administration does not make any recommendations positive >or negative about such services. > >--jon. > -- Eric Kozowski VP Internet Services [email protected] Structured Network Systems, Inc. (800)390-5945 Support A Verio Affiliate (800)881-0962 Sales/Info http://www.structured.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = 0A E4 91 B8 BD CB 3E 95 42 12 04 4E 14 DF 86 76 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' -- Benjamin Franklin 1759
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