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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] network solutions sold
  • Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:22:27 -0400

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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