[64139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh)
Thu Oct 16 13:50:02 2003
From: "Mark Radabaugh" <mark@amplex.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:34:07 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >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?
>
> Yep. And it means that Verisign business is no longer
> based so much on serving customers but more on leveraging
> various monopoly rights that they have such as ownership
> of .com and ownership of the main root CAs whose
> certificates are bundled with Microsoft's OS.
>
> >Isn't that what we wanted all along?
>
This just gets more interesting. If the sale of the NetSol was in the works
for some time (and these things usually take a while) it would mean that
Verisign was likely counting on the revenue from Sitefinder to offset the
loss of revenue from selling NetSol.
They cut off an arm and then shot themselves in the foot. Maybe ICANN can
put them out of our misery.
It would help explain why Verisign continues to press so hard for Sitefinder
despite the firestorm over it....
New Coke anyone?
Mark
