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DOMAIN NAMES DROPPED FROM INTERNIC DATABASE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (HyperReal-Anon)
Fri Mar 12 17:34:24 1999
Date: 12 Mar 1999 22:20:04 -0000
From: HyperReal-Anon <nobody@sind.hyperreal.art.pl>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: HyperReal-Anon <nobody@sind.hyperreal.art.pl>
DOMAIN NAMES DROPPED FROM INTERNIC DATABASE
Internic -- the Internet domain name administration arm of Network
Solutions
Inc. -- dropped thousands of names from its database last week, preventing
e-mail messages addressed to those names from being delivered. Users whose
names were lost will be forced to get new ones from Network Solutions --
something that's caused critics to accuse the company of ulterior motives:
"They [NSI] seem to be embarking on a campaign to benefit their [domain
name
registration] system," says the VP of one ISP. An NSI spokeswoman denied
the charges: "This is part of targeting people who register thousands of
domains and sell them for a profit." NSI will lose its monopoly over
domain
administration in September 2000, when the Internet Corporation for
Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) takes over. (Data Communications 10 Mar 99)
"we have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and
whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have
more security" -- U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, 3 Feb 1999
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Ben Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
