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  From: Richard Russell <richardrussell@internode.on.net>
  To  : Stephen White <spwhite@chariot.net.au>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 23:28:57 +0930

RE: [OT] DNS delegation pricing

> It's all trivial, and in no way does
> it translate to the $150 and $200 and $250's on the final bill.

It's all about supply and demand. If an ISP has the capacity (in bandwidth,
servers, allocated IPs, support staff, etc) to dish out 10 static IPs a
week, and there are 10 customers each week willing to pay $1000/year for
this service, then that is the market price. There are only two ways that
the cost of providing a service relates to the selling price -- the selling
price must (generally) be greater than the cost, and if the selling price is
_much_ higher than the (true) cost, then (except for large barriers to
entry) other suppliers will cotton on, and offer the service for a lower
price. Stop implying it's somehow evil or wrong -- it's a free market.

rr

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