From: afink@ping.ch (Andreas Fink) Subject: Re: Question Regarding Behaviour Of German Top Level Registry Cc: local-ir@ripe.net
-------- REPLY, Original message follows -------- No doubt ! My simple question: does the above justify a yearly fee of US$ 390 ?
They are simply not capable to do their work in a correct amount of time. In my opinion the price should be around 50-100$. The worst thing is that they charge more for works which take less time. Registering a nameserver is more expensive than registering a host (which might change more frequently). But we have to stick with that until their contract terminates. I strongly reccomend to find someone else who does that job until that time.
Just for clarification. The University of Karlsruhe runs the DENIC on a fixed prize rate for three years on behalf of the IV-DENIC which is a consortium of German service providers. Initially it was intended that everybody who wants service have to become a member of the IV-DENIC and share the costs. As for some reasons it has become necessary to sell service on a per domain base the IV-DENIC started to install the model with the prizes which are discussed at the moment. NOTE: You buy the DENIC service from the IV, not from the University of Karlsruhe. Beside of that everbody is still free to choose if he wants to become a member of the IV-DENIC or buy service on a per domain base. Sabine Dolderer -- _0_ Sabine Dolderer eMail: dolderer@nic.de / \ RZ<-- Rechenzentrum/DE-NIC \_______/ Universitaet Karlsruhe Tel: +49 721 373723 / / | \ \ Postfach 6980 Fax: +49 721 373741 _/_/__|__\_\_ D-76128 Karlsruhe Fax: +49 721 32550