Re: By the way...

[jp@PalmerOwns.The.Earth (John Palmer)]

> 
> 
> I guess I should tell the IAHC that I "estimate" that it
> will cost $20,000 to handle the paper work required to
> enter a new TLD in one of our Root Name Servers...;-)
> 
> Of course, I do not need to provide a justification for
> the estimate, or any rational explanation....I guess
> I could just say it....and "make it so"...yeah, right...
> 
> Those IAHC people must think that business people
> are stupid....
> 
> --
> Jim Fleming
> UNETY Systems, Inc.
> Naperville, IL
> 

I just did an experiment and these are the results:

  I used VI to edit a copy of the root zone file (To be fair - I
got it off of the Internic ftp site - that way there wont be a
time difference between the Alternic version and the "official (ha)"
one).

  I turned on my stopwatch and started typing 12 entries at the
end of the file - the USA and EARTH glue records.

  Stopwatch says 1 minute, 20 seconds

Now, do the math: If SAHC and SANA want $20k for this, that comes out to
$900,000 an hour.

Hey Perry - Can I come and work for you guys?? I'll take $900,000/hr!

John