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To: Jerry Olson who wrote (24602)3/27/1999 3:34:00 PM
From: AlienTech  Read Replies (2) of 50167
 
Hey OJ, Your friends at the supposedly non profit for the public NSOL is up to their ole tricks again. Guess when it comes to money, Even the pope can turn greedy.

"It was a shot across the bow," says Rich Forman, founder of Register.com, which has become one of the largest registrars of cyberspace addresses and plans to apply to become an ICANN "test" registrar. "The InterNIC and the 'whois' database were almost like the U.S. Postal Service. It was quasi-public and had a lot of trust built up in it. It was a public entity that people had trust in, and now they've turned it into a private vehicle."

Just Whose InterNIC Is It, Anyway?
Network Solutions' decision to reroute traffic from InterNIC.net puts speed bumps in the road to competition.

The brazen move by Network Solutions Inc. last week to reroute traffic from the InterNIC to the company's homepage and redirect the popular "whois" directory annoyed the government, prospective competitors and many others in the Internet community.

It also exposed potholes along the road to competition in the market for registering cyberspace addresses. The "whois" directory enabled anyone to check who owns a particular domain name. NSI's action means that the public and competing registrars can still check whether a name is in use, but now they must hunt for it at NSI's site. It also means the considerable "brand" equity of InterNIC now reverts to NSI.

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