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

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Apr 2009, at 12:39, George Kirikos wrote:

> 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:
I'd argue it was overpriced

Costing DNS based on the number of queries works fine if you're  
selling it on, but if you run a registry or registrar those are not a  
true reflection of your costs

>
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