Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 14:04:51 -0500 From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: cross@math.psu.edu (Dan Cross), p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A call for DNS secondaries to server for <dom>.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199512091904.OAA00238@hausdorff.math.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Dec 1995 00:05:40 %2B0100." <199512082305.AAA18506@keltia.freenix.fr>
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> Forget about it in France. A new domain after the first one that you get > with your provider will cost you between $200/y and $600/y depending on > whether he (the provider) has paid the $6000 fee to be in the FR-NIC > council or not. Yikes! > In other words, forget about freebsd.org.fr. I don't even think they would > accept it as they ask the name to be a registered trade mark in order to > reduce name space pollution in .fr. Hmm.. forget it, then... Another point that I hadn't thought of that Dave Barr pointed out to me was that a lot of counties don't use the standard convention for domain naming, that is, in England that use *.co.uk instead of *.com.uk. Thus, it would turn into a big mess with the country level authorities. Another thing that Dave pointed out to me was that DNS traffic isn't really all that taxing, so the benefits would be minimal. :-) Given that, I think that Jordan's original idea of splitting things up into *.<country>.freebsd.org is preferable.... It would be nice to reduce traffic overall (hey, every little bit helps) but it's just too complicated, not to mention expensive. :-( - Dan C.
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