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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Michael L. Barrow > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 11:32 AM > To: Christopher K. Phillips > Cc: David H. Holtzman; [email protected] > Subject: Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois > > > Christopher K. Phillips wrote: > > > > > I may be wrong but aren't the fees that Network Solutions is > charging for > > domain name registration "supposed" to cover the costs of > providing WHOIS > > service for those domains? Is this just another attempt to > nickel and dime > > everyone to death on some sort of new usage charge for WHOIS service? > > Who said anything about usage charges? It looks like the proposed work > mentioned by David Holtzman is to control _abuse_ of the whois service. > Otherwise, the load on whois will grow without bounds and we'd > eventually have to pay more in registration fees. Of course, that's just > my figurin' and nothing official... > Why is SAIC hiring (may have hired by now) a marketing manager to market the whois database? Cheers, Alan > -- > Michael L. Barrow * <[email protected]> * Network Engineer > Epoch Internet * DSL Engineering * (949) 399-8413 >
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