I have had a number of questions like Joerg's already for all gTLDs besides .MIL. I see little chance that we can get them all to agree to pay a share of the cost. I also see that the overhead of making agreements with some of the organisations involoved can be
If there is interest from the RIPE community it is easy to monitor
domains. However it is very difficult to do it for some for free and ask the others to pay. So doing that may lead to a situation where
prohibitive. these the
RIPE NCC membership ends up paying the whole bill. I would actually like that because it makes the measurements even more independent and I would not have to invest time into making agreements with the TLD admins, billing, etc. pp.
I agree; if people want accuracy and integrity, the measurements have to be taken independently. Mike Norris