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It took a long time, but here's the reply to my earlier message: > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 09:42:22 PDT > From: US Domain Registration <[email protected]> > > Bill: > > To be clear, no you can't assume that you can register anywhere for > free in the US domain. You don't have to deal with 3rd party services > if you don't want to, but if you don't then you do have to deal with > the manager for the delegated domain. That manager may charge a fee > for his service. > > The current policies of the US domain are on the web page at > > http://www.isi.edu/us-domain > > Check the "Overview" information. > > US Domain Registry > > - ----- Begin Included Message ----- > > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 97 18:27:07 GMT > From: "William Allen Simpson" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: usdns.org > > > From: Eric Kozowski <[email protected]> > > I received the following from Jon Postel. Posted with his permission. > > > > >The USDNS organization is esentially a broker for domain names in the > > >US (and maybe other) domains. > > >... > > >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. > > > > > > Great. Just wanted to be clear on this official policy. We can still > register ourselves without paying any service, anywhere in the US domain. > > And any "service", fee or no fee, can update the _same_ subdomains. > There is no subdomain "ownership". > > Also, there was another posting saying that IANA had made a limitation > last year for each "service" only serving 50 US sub-domains. > > I didn't see any such announcement. Could you update the US domain RFC > accordingly? > > [email protected] > Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 > [email protected] > Key fingerprint = 2E 07 23 03 C5 62 70 D3 59 B1 4F 5E 1D C2 C1 A2 > > > - ----- End Included Message ----- [email protected] Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 [email protected] Key fingerprint = 2E 07 23 03 C5 62 70 D3 59 B1 4F 5E 1D C2 C1 A2
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