John Gilmore and Maddog Hall discuss .ORG bids

TreyHarris writes "Over on SAGEwire, we have posted an email exchange between John Gilmore (EFF cofounder) and Jon "maddog" Hall (Executive Director, Linux International) about the .ORG bids. It's a fascinating read, and goes much further into depth about the issues than I've seen on any news site thus far."

25 Cents sounds nice ..

[SuperDuG]

Well I'm spending $6 a year for domains now, but $0.25 certainly does sound nice.

HOWEVER, I do like the nothing I spend for dugnet.oss (ref OpenNIC [unrated.net])

I love OpenNIC!

[aussersterne]

OpenNIC is the greatest! All those additional domains, the public-spiritedness of it all, plus the OpenNIC DNS servers, even the bottom rung ones, are so much faster than the ones provided by my ISP!

Win-win-win-win.

Jon and John don't know about domain registrars

[philovivero]

Interesting. From the email exchange:

John Gilmore said:
> That's just because you were silly enough to buy your domains from Verisign. They rely on millions of people like you, who were too lazy to switch; that's why their price is so high.

I did switch. I get my domains now through Joker.com, at about $11. each. I still consider this too expensive.

>I get domains for $8 to $12/year via eNom.com.

I went to their web site and they state that they want $29.95 for a domain. It was unclear if this was for a one year or two year registration, but even if it was two years, that means $15./year. But you probably have connections that I don't.

Eh? Don't these guys know about Gandi dot Net [gandi.net]?

About US$10/year (EUR12/year) to have any of .COM, .NET, or .ORG domains. I have had all my domains registered through them for about three years.

They even do DNS for you, if you don't have it. And their entire system is automated. I've never had to make a phone call, send a letter, or a FAX. Everything, and I mean everything is done through their web interface.

And just in case you wonder, I'm a U.S. citizen... the fact these guys are based out of France and charge me in Euros doesn't seem to make any difference. I've never had a problem with these guys. They're clued.