[27893] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Latest From Network Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary E. Miller)
Thu Mar 23 17:50:53 2000
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:48:50 -0800 (PST)
From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Reply-To: gary miller <gem@rellim.com>
To: Bryan Bradsby <Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Yo Bryan!
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Bryan Bradsby wrote:
> > I just got an unsolicited junk fax from the .WS domain. Info on their
> > TLD is at worldsite.ws. They mention as a FEATURE:
>
> dont think worldsite.ws is the registrar for .ws
>
> they just want you to think they are.
Uh, oh. I guess I swallowed the hook, line AND sinker...
whois "=ws" -h whois.networksolutions.com shows
that .WS belongs to Samoa and the real NIC is: www.samoanic.ws
The bad news is still the same:
"Except as described in the Dispute Policy, information about domain
name registrants other than their name will be kept strictly confidential."
RGDS
GARY
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