Re: Japan's NTT Com To Buy Verio

[Rodney L Caston <largo () megatokyo com>]

not much, NTT and verio have had a 'close' relationship for a long time..
Unless you think Verio's buyout may mean more banner ads on verio sites
for tamagotchis' and all things cute.

Rodney Caston
Tools Engineer
SBC Internet Services


On Mon, 8 May 2000, David Lesher wrote:

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> TOKYO, JAPAN, 2000 MAY 8 (NB) -- By Adam Creed,  
> Newsbytes. NTT Communications Corp., the long distance 
> and international operator of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone 
> Corp. (NTT) [TOKYO:9432], says it has signed a definitive 
> agreement to purchase all the shares of US-based Web site 
> and e-commerce hosting company, Verio Inc. 
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> $5.5 billion 
> over 525,000 domain names  
> the world's largest operator of Web sites for businesses. 
> {/extracted}
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> So, what will it mean operationally?
> Spamwise?
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