[40859] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: XTNS launch alternate domain name system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (doug@safeport.com)
Thu Aug 23 18:46:48 2001
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:45:14 -0400 (EDT)
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To: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@tmcs.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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They were a small government contracting company (belt-way bandit for those in
the Washington DC area) with contracts having to do with the running of IBM MVS
data centers. The NSF contract was "won" like any other. I am sure there are
reading of this list that could supply more (ancient) history.
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Mike Batchelor wrote:
> | Signature by unknown keyid: 0x55F01BC7
>
> > It never ceases to amaze me that people will create business models around
> > selling products that should be worth nothing...
> >
> > joelja
>
> You mean companies like Network Solutions, nee Verisign? What did NSI do
> before they got the NSF contract way back when? Did they actually have a
> line of business that did not rely on the registry, at some point in the
> distant past (prior to the Chixulub impact)? Or was the company formed just
> to service and exploit the NSF contract?
>
> ---
> Computers hate being anthropomorphized.
>
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