not so (was) Re: Domain fees to rise...

[Gordon Cook <cook () cookreport com>]

Did anyone actually read the article that rodney cited?  I did read it and
saw *NO* statement in it that fees actually were being increased.


> > It appears that the government has received permission to raise the
> > domain fees back to $50.

permission is one thing doing it is quite another.



> ...
> > Must be irritating for a foreign entity to be forced to pay a US tax for
> > an international resource. Wasn't there something like this that created
> > an uproar in Boston Harbor?
>
> Well here is a happy foreign entity. I have even more reason now to
> point customers at our national registry which has working whois, working
> automatable registration, working redelegation, working (almost) billing
> etc. etc....
>
> (with hat as per .sig)
>
> --
> Alex Bligh
> GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)

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