[28552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Japan's NTT Com To Buy Verio
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Mon May 8 11:19:26 2000
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:16:03 -0400 (EDT)
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TOKYO, JAPAN, 2000 MAY 8 (NB) -- By Adam Creed,
Newsbytes. NTT Communications Corp., the long distance
and international operator of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corp. (NTT) [TOKYO:9432], says it has signed a definitive
agreement to purchase all the shares of US-based Web site
and e-commerce hosting company, Verio Inc.
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$5.5 billion
over 525,000 domain names
the world's largest operator of Web sites for businesses.
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So, what will it mean operationally?
Spamwise?
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