Verisign to sell Network Solutions

Thu Oct 16 16:52:16 UTC 2003

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

  > So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the
  > registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations
  > for .com/.net will be owned by different companies?

  Yep.

Uh, actually, no. They're spinning off the registRAR operations. The
registRY functions will still be retained by them.

  And it means that Verisign business is no longer
  based so much on serving customers but more on leveraging
  various monopoly rights that they have such as ownership
  of .com and ownership of the main root CAs whose
  certificates are bundled with Microsoft's OS.

Wow. That sure seems to be a different scenario than we see today.

  [ yadda yadda yadda... ]

matto

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