more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

Jeff Shultz jeffshultz at wvi.com
Thu Oct 16 16:30:14 UTC 2003


ICANN threatened legal action before, effectively. Are they doing
anything this time? 


On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:56:47 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:

>
>He's right, and we should actually take our business elsewhere. 
>Unfortunately,
>we can't.  They have a monopoly.  No matter what registrar we use to 
>register
>our domains, that registrar is paying the part of Verislime that is 
>inflicting
>this on us to run the REGISTRY for .com and .net.
>
>The only way to actually vote with our feet is to get ICANN to start working
>on finding an alternative registry and cancel their contract with Verislime.
>This will be difficult, awkward, and, may introduce short-term instabilities
>in the network.
>
>I suspect Verisign will not participate in an orderly hand-over of the
>necessary data without a court order, in spite of the provisions in their
>contract requiring them to do just that.
>
>Owen
>
>
>--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:31 AM -0400 "McBurnett, Jim" 
><jmcburnett at msmgmt.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> All,
>> I hate to agree but he is right.
>> With companies like godaddy out there.
>> Does it make sense to pay Verislime money to fund sitefinder and our
>> headaches?
>>
>> To change this: what else can we do to prevent this?  Does the last BIND
>> version truly break sitefinder?
>>
>>
>> Later,
>> Jim
>>
>> ->-----Original Message-----
>> ->From: Miles Fidelman [mailto:mfidelman at civicnet.org]
>> ->Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:24 AM
>> ->To: nanog list
>> ->Subject: Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service
>> ->
>> ->
>> ->
>> ->Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain
>> ->registrations those of us
>> ->on nanog represent?  Contract sanctions from ICANN are one
>> ->thing, taking
>> ->all of our business elsewhere might also be effective at
>> ->getting a point
>> ->across (though it might also backfire - pushing Verisign to
>> ->be even more
>> ->agressive at taking advantage of their positioning).
>> ->
>> ->Miles
>> ->
>> ->
>>
>

-- 
Jeff Shultz
Network Support
Willamette Valley Internet
tech at wvi.com





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