Re: [ga] VeriSign May Ditch Domain Deal
Well, let's hope so. To begin with, paper work "separation" between registry and registrar functions has always been a gross fiction -- it never works and should never have been contemplated. What do you think happens when the registry type says to the registrar type, "Let's do lunch?" I never deal directly with NSI (Verisign) in registering a domain name, but only when the necessary paper work trickles out of my registration application to some other registrar. Even so, I guess that makes me a "customer" of Verisign and gives them
a crack in the law
(Once our current more important issues get resolved, SPAM, privacy,
security, etc., will
(The concession in par. 2 below solves nothing as to the problem in par. 1.) Bill Lovell Bruce James wrote: ""The major sticking point arose from a letter that the Justice Department sent to the Department of Commerce warning that the deal would harm competition in the nascent business of registering Internet names, people familiar with the negotiations said. The letter opposed the so-called vertical integration of VeriSign's managing of the ".com" database and registering new names in the database, sources said.""
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