[28562] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Japan's NTT Com To Buy Verio
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon May 8 14:40:47 2000
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 10:34:05 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>
To: "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
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On 05/08/00, "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> wrote:
> In reality, ICANN has had very little impact on the big-8 providers. They are
> not even the first to span RIRs. However, I do find it interesting that the
> reporter found it significant to count the domain names under Verio, as if
> they were assets. Since the name belongs to the registrant and not
> necessarily to Verio, they are not assets of Verio. Granted, it does
> indicate the amount of bandwidth Verio is responsible for.
Verio's been publishing that number for a while, though -- and
their subsidiary TABnet even longer.
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