Re: Core priceing

[Paul Svensson <paul@svensson.org>]

On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Rick H. Wesson wrote:

>It seems that there are 2 basic ways the folks that end up running
>the CORE database could price things.
>
>  1. Flat rate. $200K per year for opperating costs.
>
>  2. On a per domain basis like US$3.00/each one time fee.
>     $1.00 per update

There's also the possibility of running it for cost+x%,
and splitting the the bill between the registrars according
to number of domains registered.
This would avoid overly large profits at the database operator,
the downside would be the lack of incentive that usually comes
with cost+ contracts.