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Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service
From: Mike Lewinski <mike () rockynet com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:44:23 -0600
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking all of our business elsewhere might also be effective at getting a point across (though it might also backfire - pushing Verisign to be even more agressive at taking advantage of their positioning).
I get the impression they are still living under the old Bell Motto: We don't have to care, we're The Registrar.
A couple years ago when their monopoly was broken, I used it as a threat to try to finally get a report of all the domains on our nameservers. For years I would send requests every couple months, and each and every one was ignored.
I sent Verisign a list of ~1000 domains I knew were pointed to us, and said "Can you confirm these are the only ones? If I don't get an answer, I'm moving them all to another registrar." I never got an answer.
The final straw that sent us to OpenSRS was the creation of ~1000 unique accounts for us to use to manage those domains, when the old e-mail method went away.... Of course, the passwords were all snail-mailed to our clients, effectively taking away control of those domains from us. Verisign obviously doesn't want the Registrar business, or they would have found out a way to combine all those accounts when we asked.
We figure that a company so clueless doesn't deserve our certificate business either, and are pretty happy with GeoTrust.
Current thread:
- Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service], (continued)
- Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service] Owen DeLong (Oct 18)
- Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service] Kee Hinckley (Oct 18)
- Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service] Bruce Campbell (Oct 18)
- Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service] Owen DeLong (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC) (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Andrew D Kirch (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Chris Lewis (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Andrew D Kirch (Oct 18)
- more on VeriSign to revive redirect service David Lesher (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Miles Fidelman (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Christopher X. Candreva (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Mike Lewinski (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Ray Bellis (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service William Allen Simpson (Oct 18)
- RE: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Kevin Bednar (Oct 18)
- Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Miles Fidelman (Oct 18)
- RE: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Owen DeLong (Oct 18)
- RE: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service Jeff Shultz (Oct 18)