[64136] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 16 13:33:39 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:45:25 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Simon Lockhart <simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk>,
Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Cc: "Adam C. Greenfield" <agreenfield@jtlnet.com>,
Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20031016155808.GB454@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Correction... People would prefer that Verisign keept the REGISTRAR
operations for .com/.net and sold the REGISTRY operations. REGISTRY
is the monopoly part that the REGISTRARs feed into.
Owen
--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:58 PM +0100 Simon Lockhart
<simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 11:19:25AM -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote:
>> So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry
>> services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net
>> will be owned by different companies?
>>
>> Isn't that what we wanted all along?
>
> Yes, except I think that people would prefer that Verisign kept .com/.net
> registry operations (because they can choose not to use them), and sold
> the GTLD operations to someone else ;-)
>
> Simon
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