Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: UUCP Addresses Message-ID: <301@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 5 Feb 90 23:24:57 GMT References: <7419@tank.uchicago.edu> <1990Feb4.005552.11753@twwells.com> <1990Feb5.095936.19612@twwells.com> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Distribution: usa Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 33 In article <1990Feb5.095936.19612@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes: >There are two ways to legitimately use a domain name. > >The obvious one is to become an Internet site. This is expensive. Expensive is a relative term. The latest issue of The Barrnetter newsletter describes BARRNET's revised rate schedule that permits small customers to become Internet sites for as little as $1200 per year (exclusive of necessary hardware). [BARRNET is the NSF midlevel network serving the San Francisco Bay Area; I don't know what the others are doing.] In any case, it's becoming increasingly affordable, although still out of reach of most individuals. >Last I checked, getting one of the geographically based names >involved a different registration process than getting .com-like >names, and one did not go through uunet to do it. I don't know if >that is still true. ----- For the USA only ----- It's actually handled by the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. Send mail to the automated SERVICE@NIC.DDN.MIL with a Subject: line NETINFO US-DOMAIN.TXT for the whole scoop. (Unless you have FTP access; just retrieve NETINFO:US-DOMAIN.TXT from NIC.DDN.MIL.) The administrative contact for the .US domain is Ann Westine , +1 213 822 1511 -=EPS=-