What follows is my answer to Stan's pricing question,
as well as what the differences in the various methods
of "naming" a web site are.  Please skip this now
if your not interested.


As most things on the internet, practices vary widely :)

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Concerning domain names, we have the following charges:

.  No domain name = no charge (we provide links from our
   business or personal  pages if desired.  Otherwise you have
   to know explicitly what your going after.  This is how most
   personal web pages are setup.  You'd find them via one
   of the Internet search engines, linked sites, etc.).

.  Virtual domain = $5/month, no setup fee (this gives you an
   alias on our DNS, and a virtual http server to service it.  This
   is a half stop :)  You get something like:
   http://YOURNAME.editcorp.com or www.YOURNAME.editcorp.com
   The advantage here is you get *some* independence on the name
   without going through the Internic (you ride off my already registered
   domain name).

.  Distinct domain = $5/month, $200 setup fee (this is the *real* enchilda.
   I assign you one of my IP addresses, and register YOURNAME.COM
   with the Internic using that IP.   I setup DNS entries for it, and the
   httpd server as well.  You get something like: http://www.YOURNAME.COM
   to call home.  The actual work on my part is about the same as for
   the virtual domain, so I don't charge anything extra per month.  I do have
   to give the Internic $100 for registering your name (good for two years,
   afterwards $50/year), and the other $100 is for my time in administering
   things with them, plus giving away an increasingly valuable resource, the
   IP address).

  I expect that my prices will increase for the distinct domains when the
ISP's start getting charged for their CIDR blocks.  They will obviously
pass their costs down to me for the IP's they've allocated to me, and
so I'll probably do the same down to the individual IP address my
customers use.  Now when the http 1.1 standard for virtual domains
is more widely in use, a separate IP address will not be necessary
for a "distinct domain", so my prices may not rise.

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Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.editcorp.com
voice: (888) 858-EDIT -or- (509) 943-5108
fax:   (509) 946-1170
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From:  Stan Sieler[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:  Thursday, June 05, 1997 9:36 AM
To:  [log in to unmask]
Subject:  Re: [HP3000-L] Enterprise Wide Backup Solutions

Hi,

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I'd be interested in knowing if an ISP who offers both setups charges more
for the separate IP address setup.

SS