Jorge Amodio wrote:
>> Let's round it to $90,000 a year for a properly run registry.
>>     
>
> This is completely unrealistic and off by at least an order of
> magnitude if you want to run a real/serious registry. You really need
> to review the technical and operational requirements to be/run a TLD.
>
> A registry/TLD operator is not a hot dog stand.
>
> My .02
> Jorge
>   
Dear Jorge,

thanks for telling me that I had created and had been running a hot dog
stand for three years 1996/98 (after having established the first system
connecting the country to the internet in 1994 and serving more than
1,500 subscribers before bigger companies started to set up "proper"
operations for which I assigned them their domains).

Actually, our hot dog stand was cheaper than US$90,000 per year.

Norbert Klein
Phnom Penh/Cambodia

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