Re: Question Regarding Behaviour Of German Top Level Registry
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 18:33:08 +0100 (MEZ)
- Return-receipt-to: rainer@localhost (Rainer Bieniek)
> > Date: Tuesday, 19-Dec-95 04:30 PM
> >
> > From: Arnold Nipper \ Internet: (nipper@localhost)
> > To: Max Gutberlet \ Internet: (mgutberlet@localhost.
> co.at)
>
> [ ... some lines deleted ... ]
>
> > DE-NIC is run by University of Karlsruhe as a three-year contract. DE-NIC
> acts
> > as maintainer of the toplevel domain DE and still runs the last resort
> > registry. Until Aug, 31th services were payed by the IV-DENIC and
> registration
> > of a secondlevel domain had to come via an IV-DENIC member. Since Sep, 1st
> > everyone can use services from DE-NIC on a cost basis calculated on
> figures for
> > running the DE-NIC in 1995 and agreed upon by all IV-DENIC members.
> >
>
> But I DO NOT want a continous service form DE-NIC except 3 lines in their
> name server configuration file. EVERYTHING else is handled by us.
>
Yes, you WANT continous service from them - at least you want a continously
running name service. You want a part of the staff's time to do some work for
you and so on. Brought down to a basic fact:
This service costs money and somebody (and this means you :-) has to pay for
it.
> Besides (I know this is impossible) but I would realy like to see the
> figures you mentioned. Here is a little calculation (remember we are talking
> maintenance not setup):
>
> Change of Name Server
> Address per year: 2
> Amount of time for change in
> name server config: 5 min. each
> ----------------------------------------------
> 10 Minutes (1/6 Hour)
> One Hostmaster Hour 150 US$
> ----------------------------------------------
> variable Costs 25 US$
>
> Additional Costs per Entry 100% (should cover non technical tasks)
> non-variable Costs 100% (access to net, host cost a.s.o)
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> accumulated Costs 75 US$
>
>
> The RIPE Staff should have a better view on what a hostmaster hour is worth
> and how much Name-Server changes there are per domain and year. The 100% are
> from my good old economics professor at the university.
>
You'd better not bring in your economics professor here :-) He'd only prove
what you left out in your calculation
Anyway, you demand a service that simply costs money and because of your
organization is not a member of IV DE-NIC you pay the same price as any other
non-IV DE-NIC-customer. You are still free to ask any of the 8 Big ISP's
in germany if they are willing to organize the domain for you.
Your RIPE membership does not count on behold of this matter.
Rainer Bieniek
