Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder)

Fri Feb 27 13:22:40 UTC 2004

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> Verisign is really two entities wrt .com/net - it is the registry and the
> registrar. As a registrar it occupies the same position as the many other
> registrars.. tucows, melbourne, joker etc .. as a registry it occupies a
> privileged position in that it is the only entity responsible for managing and
> maintaining the gtld servers and zonefiles.
>

Verisign sold off NetSol to Pivotal Private Equity last year for 100
million, which takes them out of the registrar space and leaves them
as the registry.

-mark

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