[64112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Thu Oct 16 11:30:26 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:19:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: "Adam C. Greenfield" <agreenfield@jtlnet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1066316290.32323.85.camel@persephone>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Adam C. Greenfield wrote:
: Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their
: site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will
: still be the people maintaining the com and net registries.
Which sounds like an attempt to prevent conflict-of-interest assertions
about things like Sitefinder. (Maybe their registrar business isn't so
profitable after all, and they'd rather get the advertising revenue.)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
