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Re: worldnic
From: Phil Howard <phil () charon ipal net>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:13:25 -0500 (CDT)
I must not be on enough or the right lists...but what's the deal with worldnic.com? I'd not heard anything about it until today. I tried to move a domain (a .org domain) for a customer today, and got the following reply from domreg () internic net:
It might be good to bring this up on the Domain Policy mailing list. It might not be exactly correct there, but at least some NSI people read there and they might know what is going on. Maybe they can even tell us something about it. It also happens to be where a lot of flaming of NSI takes place, even though NSI (or is that InterNIC) is hosting the mailing list.
Thank you for contacting Network Solutions, Inc., InterNIC Registration Services. The domain name you are attempting to update was registered through WorldNIC Services and should be updated via the following URL: http://www.worldnic.com
I checked the site, and could not find a way to make an update there. They have a place to register a domain, but if you enter an existing domain name, it merely tells you that you cannot use that one because it already exists.
This looks like Network Solutions taking advantage of its position as controller of the big three commercially used TLDs to find new ways to dip their fingers into another part of the pie...perhaps in anticipation of losing their monopoly on domain registrations.
I'm sure NSI wants to be a player in the domain name game. I'm sure they also want to be the big player.
What does my ISP need to do to get setup with Network Solutions such that anytime someone wants to modify a domain registered through us, the request is bounced litterally saying "you can't do that, go talk to FDT about it."?
I guess you need to become a registrar. You would need to run the shared registry system which would allow you to be a registrar for these TLDs. But I don't see there being all that much difference between being a registrar and simply doing what most ISPs already do and do the registering for a customer via a registrar. Well, I take that back ... I do see a difference ... it may be the case that the registration policies MIGHT be different for each registrar. That will be interesting. Anyway, are domain issues appropriate for NANOG? Certainly most network operators do have to deal with them, but is it actually a network operation issue? I tend to think not. So this all is probably more appropriate for a domains oriented mailing list. -- Phil Howard | die5spam () dumb6ads net eat1this () spam6mer edu stop9ads () lame8ads org phil | stop7543 () s2p9a4m3 net eat77me4 () dumb8ads org no6spam8 () no99ads7 net at | no09ads0 () dumb3ads edu suck2it1 () no0where edu stop3it7 () dumb3ads org ipal | die3spam () nowhere3 net stop9846 () s8p5a2m1 edu a7b8c7d8 () no1place com dot | stop3ads () lame9ads edu no4way44 () anyplace edu stop8824 () noplace9 edu net | eat31me2 () dumb8ads net blow8me9 () spam8mer net suck2it8 () no6place edu
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