[22689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What does the NIC in InterNIC mean? "Network Incompetence
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Sat Jan 16 08:38:28 1999
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:15:59 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: John Fraizer <John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net>
Cc: markk@NETSOL.COM, ema@merit.edu, action@isi.edu, report@drudge.com,
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I would like to thank the anonymous party who sent the email below. It
confirms the rumors I had heard related to the cause of the latest InterNIC
SNAFU.
>Subject: What does the NIC in InterNIC mean? "Network Incompetence
Consortium" (fwd)
>To: John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net
>
>
>The service from InterNIC has been really poor for the last couple of
>weeks, and they finally admitted what the problem is, but only to their
>Premier Partners, and only after making up lots of other stories to cover
>it up first.
>
>Please keep me anonymous, don't use my name.
>
>InterNIC admitted that they are being massively flooded by domain
>speculators trying to register domains that are On Hold. It's happened
>before, but this time it's far and away worse than ever before. They said
>they expect to have it resolved in a few days, which I believe means that
>they're seeking legal injunctions against one or more offenders. From what
>I've heard, these speculators are sending registration templates for
>hundreds of domains every second, going far beyond their capacity.
It seems that the Network Solutions/The InterNIC is following the lead of
the politicians. Lie about it until you're caught and then refuse to talk
about it.
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