Domain Cost $2000
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- Subject: Domain Cost $2000
- From: "Zmeyr, Dave" <ZmeyrD@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:55:22 -0500
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- Thread-topic: Domain Cost $2000
I strongly agree
with the concept of putting an organized method into place to authenticate
origination of e-mails and help eliminated SPAM. However, the entire nature of
the Internet is that it's easy for individuals as well as small businesses to
create a "presence" and participate in the free flow of
information.
Placing a high
dollar registration fee will not eliminate spammers (as many of the successful
ones can afford this). It will prevent almost all individuals and small
businesses from hosting their own mail sites and will have a chilling affect on
business and personal proliferation on the web.
As an owner of a
small mail site which I do mainly for fun, I can support myself with a small
number of users -- raising the price of registration means you pretty much
eliminate me hosting small businesses (for whom I'd have to do a pass-thru of
the costs) as well as my own domain which for the small number of users would be
prohibitively expensive.
Even for a major
business such as Cintas, where we operate under multiple banners (cintas,
cintas-corp, uty, omni and multiple others) this registration fee would be
extremely expensive and result in us not investing in other portions of our mail
architecture.
Charging excessive
fees to stop bad behavior is the antithesis of what the Internet is, please
don't do it!
- Dave
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