Verisign to sell Network Solutions

Thu Oct 16 16:45:25 UTC 2003

Correction... People would prefer that Verisign keept the REGISTRAR
operations for .com/.net and sold the REGISTRY operations.  REGISTRY
is the monopoly part that the REGISTRARs feed into.

Owen

--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:58 PM +0100 Simon Lockhart 
<simon.lockhart at bbc.co.uk> wrote:

>
> On Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 11:19:25AM -0400, Chris Woodfield 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?
>>
>> Isn't that what we wanted all along?
>
> Yes, except I think that people would prefer that Verisign kept .com/.net
> registry operations (because they can choose not to use them), and sold
> the GTLD operations to someone else ;-)
>
> Simon
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