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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:14:27PM -0400, Sil Greene wrote:
> 
> 
> Reported 03.10.17 12:38 from Steven Champeon:
> .:on Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:12:21AM -0400, zman wrote:
> 
> .:> I think it's all a scam so they can seperate themselves and restart 
> .:> their  SiteFinder Advertising 'Service' without legal ramifications to 
> .:> Verisign.  
> 
> .:Uh, no - probably more like Verisign ensuring that the revenue lost by
> .:the sale of NSI would be replaced by the addition of advertising revenue
> .:from their abuse of the root zones. SiteFinder is Verisign, not NSI.
> 
> Well, that begs the question: who administers the .com/.net/.org TLDs 
> after this sale?  VeriSign or NSI?  How will the sale of NSI alter 
> VeriSign's agreements with ICANN?

Verisign is keeping the .com/.net registry; it merely sold the registrar
NSI to the other group.
 
> It seems clear that transferring those responsibilities would remove 
> VeriSign's ability to offer SiteFinder, at least in the incarnation we all 
> know and love (*cough* *devilspawn* *cough*).  Since it's unlikely that 
> VeriSign's given up on SiteFinder, the safe bet would be that they're 
> selling NSI as registrar only, not as a TLD administrator.

Yup.
 
> This would certainly NOT remove legal ramifications for SiteFinder from 
> VeriSign.

Nope. It sure doesn't.

> [An aside: the TLDs are administered separately, so VS could, for example, 
> sell off the .org responsibilities while retaining the (more lucrative) 
> .com and .net TLDs.  This might make sense: I believe the .org agreement 
> placed more restrictions on the administrator than either .com or .net.  
> VS may be looking to offload a "poor performer".]

.org is already being managed by someone else; I forget who.

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