Re: [ga] Re: New gTLDs, root zone management, IANA procedures and security

[George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx> wrote:
>  George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote 
> > d) With DNS queries costing $1 per 1000 requests:
> 
> That's pure bullshit. AFNIC's three in-house
> nameservers receive more
> than 4,000 requests/s, which would be 126 millions US $ per
> year. Our

True, that $1 per 1000 requests is a wee bit high, but enterprise quality DNS 
from UltraDNS isn't cheap. ;) I'm aware there are much less expensive 
alternatives like:

http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/s0306/price/dns.html#query

"0.219 cents per 1,000 queries"

But, I put the onus on the other side to disclose their "real" numbers. The 
point was that the cost isn't zero. And if the cost approached zero, why again 
are VeriSign et al receiving 7% or 10% annual price increases? ;)

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.leap.com/