[17646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: worldnic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Mon Jun 8 13:13:30 1998
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 12:32:06 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
In-Reply-To: <199806051637.LAA25800@dilbert.ais.net>
At 11:37 6/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>WorldNIC also registers domain names for other TLDs besides COM/NET/ORG/EDU,
>if you look.
Yup. Through IDNames...owned (remarkably enough) by Network Solutions.
Nothing like bundling, eh?
>
>I've been hearing bits and pieces from various places at NSI regarding
>WorldNIC for a while. **IMHO** it's a real mess. I don't see a whole lot
>of organization with it, and NSI is acting really, really stupid by not
>making a formal press release regarding deployment of WorldNIC.
They did, in December 1997. And via their silly "dot com people" advertising.
What do spammers and nails have in common? They're both intended for
hammering.
Dean Robb
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