Re: usdns.org

[Eric Kozowski <kozowski () structured net>]

I received the following from Jon Postel.  Posted with his permission.

> Eric:
>
> Thanks for asking.
>
> The USDNS organization is esentially a broker for domain names in the
> US (and maybe other) domains.
>
> The idea seems to be that if a customer wants a domain name and does
> not know how to get it he can go to the broker and ask for what he
> wants.  The broker then does the work by contacting the appropriate
> domain manager and getting the name registered and paying any fees due
> to the domain manager.  The broker adds on his own fee and bills the
> customer.
>
> There seem to be several such services in operation.
>
> Some people seem to be glad to find such helpful services, other people
> seem to think that since these services charge you for something you
> could do directly yourself for less there is something wrong about
> their existance.
>
> In the world there are many such services, we all make tradeoffs every
> day between doing something ourselves vs using a service to do it for
> us.  We all trade money vs time and/or knowledge and/or skill.
>
> The US Domain Administration does not make any recommendations positive
> or negative about such services.
>
> --jon.

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