[62656] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor)
Sat Sep 20 17:04:04 2003
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:01:02 -0400
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0309201617220.16940-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 9/20/03 4:45 PM, "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> ICANN can seek specific performance of the agreement by Verisign, or
> seek to terminate Verisign's contract as the .COM/.NET registry operator
> and transfer the operation to a successor registry.
Quiet honestly I'd like to see all of the GTLD servers given to neutral
companies, ones that ARE not registrars. Verisign is already engaging in a
lot of unfair business practices because they hold the GTLD servers for
net/com. The wildcard SNAFU is just one of their tactics to patch the
financial hole since people have been switching registrars in droves.
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