RE $50 Million NSF windfall??

[Karl Denninger]

On Wed, Mar 12, 1997 at 05:42:33PM -0500, John Curran wrote:
> At 16:59 3/12/97, Jim Fleming wrote:
> 
> >Has it occurred to you that the NSF may have to
> >reclaim rights because of the massive revenue
> >stream that apparently is NOT being generated...?
> 
> Given that paying for DNS names is a relatively
> new concept, I can understand the desire to be
> somewhat cautious before dropping registrations
> for lack of payment (I'd certainly be concerned
> if the long-term intention was to have only a 
> 50% payment rate, but that's unlikely to be the 
> situation).
> 
> /John
> 
> p.s.  My third post of the day; everyone enjoy
>       the peace (till tomorrow :-)


I'd agree with you if I didn't find 32% of the registrations in COM to have 
bogus nameservers (ie: NS records for which the NAMESERVER failed to resolve 
to an IP address!)

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