IP: More on Web management co. raises feds' ire --[ but will they do

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Henry E. Schaffer" <hes () ias ga unc edu>
> Subject: Re: IP: Web management co. raises feds' ire --[ but will they do
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 99 17:17:35 EST
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>
> > WASHINGTON (AP) - The government-selected company that assigns most of
> > the world's Internet addresses made a surprise move to steer customers
> > of an important Web directory to its private commercial site, ...
>
>  I went to http://www/internic.net/ to check this out - and was
> automatically shunted to http://www.networksolutions.com/ and found some
> interesting things there:
>
> - They are selling the idea of registering the same domain name on the
> three TLD's, "And with .com, .net and .org, you can triple your presence
> for less than the cost of a cup of coffee I only 51 cents a day to
> reserve your address with all 3 domains."
>
> - They are pushing the idea of registering lots of domain names for the
> same location, "Reserve as many .com, .net and .org Web Addresses as you
> need to cover variations of your company name, product lines or brands ... 
> and have them all take visitors to the one Web site of your choice."
>
> - Perhaps there are links to such generic information as the RFCs and
> templates - but I couldn't find them either by poking around or using
> their search.
>
> - trying http://rs.internic.net/ to get to the RFCs, etc. doesnt' work,
> it also is redirected to the networksolutions commercial site.  This
> stinks, as I've been using this as my source for RFCs.  I can also get
> them at http://info.internet.isi.edu/1/in-notes  but I'm not sure where
> the templates are.
>
> --henry schaffer