ap@unido.UUCP (Axel Pawlik) (07/21/89)
Axel Pawlik
Dortmund University
Network Support
Clarification about domain registry in Germany
This is a clarification concerning Anke Goos' article on sundry
topics about networking in Germany. Anke didn't quite express herself
clearly enough, and I didn't get the ambiguity of her sentence.
- The registry of subdomains of the internet domain ".de" is not
administratively linked to the running of EUnet in Germany.
There is a nonzero intersection between the staff of both
registry and EUnet backbone, which is me.
- There have never been any thoughts of charging for registering
subdomains of ".de". Definitely it is utterly wrong to think
that only EUnet-sites are registered. In fact, the registry is
cooperating with all German computer networks (as in "Notable
Computer Networks").
Every "legal entity" is entitled to register.
regards, Axel