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From: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Justifying uucp domain registry
Message-ID: <3868@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: Sat, 30-May-87 21:34:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: elroy.3868
Posted: Sat May 30 21:34:34 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 00:44:25 EDT
References: <855@rtech.UUCP> <2208@hoptoad.uucp> <343@novavax.UUCP>
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
Lines: 35
Summary: Not per machine but per organization

In article <343@novavax.UUCP>, don@novavax.UUCP (Don Joslyn) writes:
> [I lost this persons name somewhere, not Don]
> >I have the same question.  Let me ask another one:
> >
> >	"What do we get out of it that justifies us paying $150 PER YEAR?"
> >
> >It seems like a one-time database update to me.  If somebody wants to change
> >their entry, they can always pay to submit the change, just like with the phone
> >company.  But why pay every year for no service?

Someone has to pay for the disk and CPU time it takes to have mail forwarded
through the registry machines.  As you may know seismo is very heavly
loaded passing mail to all sorts of sites.  Phone time adds up!
 
> Let's see now,
> 
> 	 1000 sites times $150 = $  150,000 year / 12 = $ 12,500 month
> 	 5000 sites times $150 = $  750,000 year / 12 = $ 62,500 month
> 	10000 sites times $150 = $1,500,000 year / 12 = $125,000 month

This appears that there is some misunderstanding as to who has to register.
Only the organization has to register once, for example, widget corp
who has 1000 machines pays $150 that covers ALL their machines and gives
them WIDGET.COM as a domain.  A cost of $.15/per machine, quite low!
I think it will be quite a while before 10000 companies sign up.
Consider the cost of a Sun-3/160 with a lifetime of ~5 years and maintanence
and phone bills and people's time $50/year doesn't seem to high.  If a large
number of people sign up the costs per registry will probably go down
and the UUCP folks might refect that in future pricing schemes.

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