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Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Thu Oct 16 11:39:18 2003

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:19:25 -0400
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: "Adam C. Greenfield" <agreenfield@jtlnet.com>
Cc: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1066316290.32323.85.camel@persephone>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



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So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry servic=
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operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned =
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different companies?

Isn't that what we wanted all along?

-C

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:58:11AM -0400, Adam C. Greenfield wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:29, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
> > This is interesting:
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> >       Dear Valued Network Solutions Customer,
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> >       Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definit=
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> > agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal
> > Private Equity.
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> > Mark Radabaugh
> > Amplex
> > (419) 720-3635
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> Adam C. Greenfield (agreenfield@jtlnet.com)
> Senior Systems Engineer
> JTL Networks Inc.  (614) 847-9790
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