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Eight of the world's largest domain registrars have sent an open letter to ICANN Chairman of the Board Vint Cerf, stating their formal opposition to the revised proposition with VeriSign for continued control of the Internet registry.The eight signatories, which lay claim to 25 million domain names, or 57 percent of those currently registered, are GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Tucows, Register.com, BulkRegister, Schlund + Partner AG, Melbourne IT and Intercosmos Media Group.
In the letter, the group opposed two key items in the revised deal: Pricing and management rights.
Under the proposed new terms, VeriSign may raise wholesale costs for .com domains in four of the next 6 years.
I'm guessing I'm not the only person here who comes out of the pre-breakup Telcos, and can remember what kind of bloated, inefficient, technology stiffling machines they were at their height.
Allowing one company to hold a monopoly over a key information exchange sector is never, ever, a healthy thing.
Sure, I miss my fat, padded salary, ridiculously posh benefits package, and complete lack of performance pressure.
Or at least I used to. For about half a year I missed it. Then I realised how much more fun it was to be out in a dynamic industry, with these strange new concepts like "innovation". (At least, it was a strange concept to me when the Telcos broke up in Canada, 10, 12 years ago? Gawd, it seems like it was around the last Ice Age when we still had Telco monopolies.)
Allowing one company to control the dot-com registry will lead to systematic cost increases, technological apathy, a general rotting of the core of the internet apple.
IMHO
Dummy me. I thought Verisign and Network Solutions were the same company.
Network Solutions was the first commercial entity to have the monopoly for domain registration. They were the sole bidder to run the domain name system when the National Science Foundation, which previously controlled domain registration, put the task out to bid in 1992. This was before the registrar/registry system.
San Diego-based SAIC, a private, employee-owned company (primarily a defense contractor, who also runs "research" nuclear reactors, and whose employees seem to like taking pictures of Iraqi prisoners in curious poses...) bought Network Solutions in 1995.
In 1999, the system was opened to competition, and the registrar/registry system was created.
SAIC sold Network Solutions to Verisign in 2000 for $21B in stock. Yes, $21B.
In 2003, Network Solutions was spun-off from Verisign as a private company.
(With help for my feeble memory from Google and Wikipedia...)
I can't remember which company I hated first or why. Verisign or Network Solutions. Since VS owned NS I started hating both whenever I saw they offered something.
Now that NS and VS are separate companies, I need to know, which is the evil one again?
Now that NS and VS are separate companies, I need to know, which is the evil one again?
Well, Network Solutions is a registrar.
Verisign is the registry for .com and .net.
If you are a registrar, you hate Verisign, and maybe Network Solutions.
If you are an end-user, you hate Network Solutions, and maybe Verisign. :)
[edited by: Webwork at 3:15 pm (utc) on Feb. 20, 2006]
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Now that NS and VS are separate companies, I need to know, which is the evil one again?