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RE: [ga] VeriSign May Ditch Domain Deal
Bill,
Please
give me an example that proves that the current separation between Registry and
Registrar does not work.
Chuck
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 that allows them to send me their SPAM. That's one reason
why there's an incompatibility between registry and registrar functions --
registries should twiddle bits, and that's all -- a registry should be
hawking nothing. (For our nonUSA people to whom the slang term
"hawking" is not familiar, it just means aggressive marketing and that
sort of thing.)
(Once our current more important issues get resolved, SPAM, privacy,
security, etc., will be my next projects.)
(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.""
""Commerce officials were said to be asking for more
concessions from VeriSign, such as giving up control of the ".net" domain
sooner than 2005.""
/Bruce
----- Original Message -----
Sent: May 16, 2001 07:46
Subject: [ga] VeriSign May Ditch
Domain Deal VeriSign May Ditch
Domain Deal By Aaron Pressman May 15 2001 04:57 PM
PDT
The Commerce Department's review of
the agreement that extends the computer security firm's control of the
'.com' domain has the company thinking twice, sources
say.
MORE at:
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,24500,00.html
/Bruce
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