Re: Japan's NTT Com To Buy Verio

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () mail-abuse org>]

On 05/08/00, "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer () mhsc com> wrote: 

> In reality, ICANN has had very little impact on the big-8 providers. They are
> not even the first to span RIRs. However, I do find it interesting that the 
> reporter found it significant to count the domain names under Verio, as if 
> they were assets. Since the name belongs to the registrant and not 
> necessarily to Verio, they are not assets of Verio. Granted, it does 
> indicate the amount of bandwidth Verio is responsible for.

        Verio's been publishing that number for a while, though -- and
        their subsidiary TABnet even longer.

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