[68004] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Jeftovic)
Fri Feb 27 08:23:35 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:22:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402271008450.16616-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> Verisign is really two entities wrt .com/net - it is the registry and the
> registrar. As a registrar it occupies the same position as the many other
> registrars.. tucows, melbourne, joker etc .. as a registry it occupies a
> privileged position in that it is the only entity responsible for managing and
> maintaining the gtld servers and zonefiles.
>
Verisign sold off NetSol to Pivotal Private Equity last year for 100
million, which takes them out of the registrar space and leaves them
as the registry.
-mark
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