[596] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Forwarded mail..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Goldstein)
Fri Sep 29 13:24:51 1995
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 13:21:09 -0400
To: santa@north.pole
From: sgoldste@nsf.gov (Steve Goldstein)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 12:11 PM 9/29/95, santa@north.pole wrote:
>i dunno, i saw this and was sondering if it sounded paranoid or what..
>merry xmas..
Ho ho ho, stuff it up the chimney, Santa! NSF made the award to NSI for
Internet Registration Services lonnnng before SAIC bought them out. And,
it is the only award we have for registration services.
But now, at least, the ex-spooks will have goodies like diarrhea.com to
amuse themselves with. Could you have done a more poeticly just job than
that, Santa?
--SG
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> Ex-spooks take over Internet domain name registration
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>The press recently reported that the National Science Foundation has turned
>over Internet Domain Name registration to Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) of
>Herndon, VA. The press failed to note some interesting connections. ...
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