COMMERCIAL ACCOUNT APPLICATION

Revised: March 30, 1998

Ripco Communications Inc. is a registered corporation in the state of Illinois, providing commercial and personal internet access services.

Quick Reference to Ripco's commercial rates

All business-level accounts are charged on a quarterly (three month) basis, the first quarter's payment is due with the account request. You will receive an e-mail notice two weeks before the account expires. All accounts can be prepaid up to one year in advance.

Web Page design is not included in the account rate, however we will provide design services by the page or for an entire site, at competitive rates.

Business PPP/Shell - $60/quarter
Includes all features of regular shell accounts, including virtual SLIP/PPP, plus use of the low-volume user home pages on pages.ripco.net for business purposes.
This includes imagemaps and form mailing, but no other CGI-BIN facilities.
Business shell can be combined with Domain Name Service to forward all mail for your domain into your regular e-mail account, and to send mail as user@yourdomain.com instead of user@ripco.com.
Commercial PPP/Shell - $90/quarter
All the services of the business shell plus real, dynamic-address PPP and use of a httpd (Web) server accessed by your domain name (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/ ) and enhanced technical support. The ripco.com domain disappears as the target address, both for web address and email.
Account includes the first 200 Mb of traffic per month with additional traffic billed at $0.10/Mb. This account also includes ability to use cgi-bin script access, separate log files with a monthly summary, and virtual SLIP/PPP.
Corporate Web - $300/quarter
All the features of Commercial accounts but with extended limits for both output (100 Mb/day) and disk space (50Mb). This account also includes direct access to your server traffic and 50Mb of disk space. Along with cgi-bin access, this account includes direct access to your server's log files, automatic server content indexing and a 20% discount on consulting services from MSG.Net, Inc. involved in setting up your site and connection.
This account also include cgi-bin script access and a true SLIP/PPP account with fixed IP and host.yourdomain.com addresses, along with the other standard features.

Account features
                               Business    Commercial    Corporate

Imagemap Support                 Yes          Yes          Yes
Access Log Information		 No           Monthly      On demand
Web Form Support                 FormMail     Mail+CGI     Mail+CGI
Cgi-Bin Support			 No           Yes          Yes
Server Side Includes		 No           Yes          Yes
Traffic (bandwidth limit)        50mb/month   200mb/month  100mb/daily
Disk Space                       15 megs      15 megs      50 megs
SLIP/PPP                         Virtual      Dynamic      Static IP
Maximum Modem Speed              33.6         53k/V90      53k/V90
Setup Fee                        None         None         None
Quarterly Fee			 $60          $90          $300

Additional Services:

Additional Disk storage for any account - $1 per meg per month.
Additional traffic (overage) for any account $0.10 per megabyte.
Domain Name Service - $50/year
Fee includes filing the domain template to Internic, both Primary and Secondary name services (DNS) and email handling for the registered domain. Within 90 days you will also be invoiced by Internic for $100 which covers their fees for two years.
DO NOT INCLUDE INTERNIC'S $100 FEE, YOU WILL BE INVOICED LATER
DIRECTLY BY INTERNIC. PAY ONLY OUR $50 DNS FEE AT THIS TIME

Consulting services - $60/hour
Services available include web design, CGI authoring, and special account setup.
30% Discount on consulting to set up connectivity, special account configurations or initial system setup for Corporate account customers
CGI-BIN facilities
The Commercial and Corporate accounts include your own cgi-bin directory. CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts allow you to invoke programs in response to requests from web users. A common use is to accept information from HTML forms such as order requests.
Access Logs
Log file information and monthly summaries are included with these accounts. Corporate and Commercial accounts have their own separate summaries available on the web and sent via e-mail. Corporate accounts also include daily traffic summaries.

All accounts include:

Additional services available for a low fee

Terms and Conditions

RCI reserves the right to adjust our rates in the future, and to refuse or terminate service at its own discretion, including for violation of our or our upstream's acceptable use policy.
RCI reserves the right to limit or otherwise filter email and other connectivity to or from any address adversely affecting server security and reliability.

Refunds on account cancellation will be for the remaining service term from when your cancellation request is verified (by phone, M-F).

Shell accounts are for the sole use of the business paying for the account, with only one connection (login) per account allowed at any one time.

There are NO restrictions on the content or resale of the Web page space aside from those imposed by law, and by the Acceptable use policy.

To subscribe by postal mail, print out this application and send it by U.S. mail to the address given below with your initial payment.

If you have any questions about the application please call (773) 477-6210

Company Name: ______________________________________________________________

Contact Name: ______________________________________________________________

Mailing Address: ___________________________________________________________

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City: ________________ State: ________ Zip: _________ Country: _____________

Daytime Phone: ______________________    Fax Number: _______________________

Choice of preferred login name. This should be lower-case, start with a letter, and consist of no more than 8 characters. Please give two alternate choices in case first cannot be issued due to duplication.

Choice 1. ______________  Choice 2. ______________  Choice 3. ______________

The full name will be given on electronic mail and in other listings of who's logged on, it's usually a longer form of the login name, or your company name.

Preferred full account name?  ______________________________________________

Subscribers may choose to use either 'ksh' (Korn shell) or the 'tcsh' (C shell) as the initial command line interface. The Korn shell is an expanded version of the standard Unix shell, it is about equivalent to the C shell in terms of ease of use. In either case you will always have access to a text menu interface and SLIP/PPP.

Please check one only: KSH [ ] TCSH [ ]

If you're requesting domain name registration and service please choose a domain name of 32 characters or less. Names must start with a letter, can contain letters, numbers, and hyphens ONLY. The name should also end with .com or .net, choosing other suffixes will delay processing. Registration normally requires 1-3 days for Internic to process.

Domain Name: _______________________________________________________________
Please Check Internic's whois database to ensure that your chosen domain is available.

With domain service (alone or combined with any account) all mail to any user@yourdomain.com will be delivered to any one account of your choosing, on Ripco or anywhere on the internet. By default email for the domain will be delivered to the login name entered above.

Account Level(payment):
	[ ] DNS Only ($50)			[NO WEB SERVER]
	[ ] Business ($60)			[WEB SERVER UNDER RIPCO.COM]

	[ ] Commercial plus DNS ($140)		[WEB SERVER UNDER YOUR DOMAIN]
	[ ] Corporate plus DNS	($350)		[BIG WEB SITE, STATIC PPP]

Additional services:

		[ ] Autoresponder $45/quarter
		[ ] Anonymous FTP $75/quarter
		[ ] Additional POP (email) boxes $15/quarter

Please include a check or money order for the first quarters fee and domain service fee.

WE DO NOT INVOICE OR ACCEPT PURCHASE ORDERS FOR NEW ACCOUNTS.

Do not send cash or credit card info. Once established, accounts can be prepaid for up to one year. Billing (renewal) information will be sent by email or invoiced as the account nears expiration.

Send the completed application with payment to:
Ripco Communications Inc.
3163 N. Clybourn Ave.
Chicago, Il. 60618-6424

Office hours by appointment only.


For more information send e-mail to sysop@ripco.com