[17610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: worldnic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sun Jun 7 18:54:27 1998
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:28:57 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@shell.nacs.net>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980605110630.59294@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>; from Jay R. Ashworth on Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 11:06:30AM -0400
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 11:06:30AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > 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:
>
> No, you just don't read the right magazines; they've been advertising
> this bit o' drivel for months now. They're "repositioning" themselves,
> I'd say; you see: InterNIC has a bad reputation around these here
> parts.
>
> But "WorldNIC" doesn't; ain't it great?!
WorldNIC charges for looking up domains (basically doing a whois) --
some others charge for this too.
IIRC.
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