Re: Commercial Advantages of Hosting Name Servers

["David R. Conrad" <david.conrad@nominum.com>]

Randy,

Are you suggesting that marketing folk would not take advantage of such a 
situation?

Rgds,
-drc

At 04:23 PM 12/10/2000 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > % If a name server is hosted with an ISP, does that give the ISP a 
> commercial
> > % advantage in anyway, for example, in marketing, or in negotiating peering
> > % agreements, or similar?
> >
> >       Yes, hosting a server does provide a commercial advantage. There
> >       is no way to escape it.
> >
> >       This concern was what drove the placement of the four additional
> >       root servers that were created in 1995.  Many ISPs expressed
> >       interest in hosting. The principle reason was that it provided
> >       a competative advantage, hence the model that was chosen was to
> >       have one entity, usually a membership or constituency based
> >       entity operate the node, with physical placement being directed
> >       by short RTTs within a region and good connectivity to the
> >       other servers for the domain.
>
>i can't find the part of your message which describes the commercial
>advantage.
>
>randy