Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

The back end DNS is the registry service.  What you are saying they are
doing is selling the REGISTRAR business and keeping the REGISTRY.
Or did I miss something?

Owen


--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:46 AM -0400 Kee Hinckley 
<nazgul () somewhere com> wrote:

> At 3:18 PM +0100 10/16/03, Michael.Dillon () radianz com 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).
> >
> > There are alternative suppliers for registering domain names and
> > SSL certs. Look here http://referrals.tucows.com/
> > for registrars that are alternatives to Verisign for .com and .net.
>
> This point just became moot.
> Versign is selling the registry business.  Network Solutions is being
> spun off.  They retain the back end DNS.
>
> http://www.verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031016.html?sl=070805
> --
> Kee Hinckley
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>
> I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
> responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to
> regulate everyone else's.