Re: worldnic

[DAVE NORDLUND <nordlund () ccstaff cc ukans edu>]

> Date:          Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:32:49 -0400 (EDT)
> From:          Phillip Vandry <vandry () Mlink NET>
> Subject:       Re: worldnic
> To:            Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 fdt net>
> Cc:            nanog () merit edu

> > 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: 
> >
> > 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

Interesting.  www.internic.com is a rip off company in Australia changing $200
to register a name.  They send $100 to NSI and keep the other $100.  I had
a client do this and saw a badly messed up registration record (wrong DNS 
server and POCs) and fixed them.  Then NIS billed for the $100 which had
already been sent to Australia.  Since my client was a lawyer, a couple of
letters got $199 back!  This looks like someone else doing the same thing.

> I got one of those two last night.
>
> I wouldn't consider it half as atrocious as it is, though, if it was
> actually possible to find information about what exactly this worldnic
> thing is and does on the web site!
>
> > 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.
>
> Since they are charging $119, which is move than the InterNIC fee, that
> must be how they 'legalize' it. The normal fee goes to Internic, and
> Worldnic keeps the rest. (And it's not supposed to matter in some
> fictitious world that Worldnic and Internic are both Netsol)
>
> -Phil

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