[17567] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: worldnic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DAVE NORDLUND)
Fri Jun 5 13:20:25 1998
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 12:16:09 +0000
From: DAVE NORDLUND <nordlund@ccstaff.cc.ukans.edu>
In-reply-to: <199806051332.JAA07766@Iodine.Mlink.NET>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-to: d-nordlund@ukans.edu
> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:32:49 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
> Subject: Re: worldnic
> To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> > I must not be on enough or the right lists...but what's the deal with
> > worldnic.com? I'd not heard anything about it until today. I tried to move
> > a domain (a .org domain) for a customer today, and got the following reply
> > from domreg@internic.net:
> >
> > Thank you for contacting Network Solutions, Inc., InterNIC
> > Registration Services.
> >
> > The domain name you are attempting to update was registered
> > through WorldNIC Services and should be updated via the following
> > URL:
> >
> > http://www.worldnic.com
Interesting. www.internic.com is a rip off company in Australia changing $200
to register a name. They send $100 to NSI and keep the other $100. I had
a client do this and saw a badly messed up registration record (wrong DNS
server and POCs) and fixed them. Then NIS billed for the $100 which had
already been sent to Australia. Since my client was a lawyer, a couple of
letters got $199 back! This looks like someone else doing the same thing.
>
> I got one of those two last night.
>
> I wouldn't consider it half as atrocious as it is, though, if it was
> actually possible to find information about what exactly this worldnic
> thing is and does on the web site!
>
> > This looks like Network Solutions taking advantage of its position as
> > controller of the big three commercially used TLDs to find new ways to dip
> > their fingers into another part of the pie...perhaps in anticipation of
> > losing their monopoly on domain registrations.
>
> Since they are charging $119, which is move than the InterNIC fee, that
> must be how they 'legalize' it. The normal fee goes to Internic, and
> Worldnic keeps the rest. (And it's not supposed to matter in some
> fictitious world that Worldnic and Internic are both Netsol)
>
> -Phil
Dave Nordlund d-nordlund@ukans.edu
University of Kansas 785/864-0450
Computing Services FAX 913/864-0485
Lawrence, KS 66045 KANREN
