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From: ap@unido.UUCP (Axel Pawlik)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Domain Registry in Germany
Message-ID: <522@unido.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 89 15:17:44 GMT
Reply-To: ap@unido.UUCP (Axel Pawlik)
Organization: University of Dortmund, West Germany
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Axel Pawlik
Dortmund University
Network Support

  	Clarification about domain registry in Germany

  This is a clarification concerning Anke Goos' article on sundry 
topics about networking in Germany. Anke didn't quite express herself
clearly enough, and I didn't get the ambiguity of her sentence.

 - The registry of subdomains of the internet domain ".de" is not
   administratively linked to the running of EUnet in Germany. 
     There is a nonzero intersection between the staff of both
   registry and EUnet backbone, which is me.

 - There have never been any thoughts of charging for registering
   subdomains of ".de". Definitely it is utterly wrong to think
   that only EUnet-sites are registered. In fact, the registry is
   cooperating with all German computer networks (as in "Notable
   Computer Networks").
     Every "legal entity" is entitled to register.

  	regards,	Axel