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.net Domain Up For Grabs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-no-.rob-for-me dept.

belmolis writes " The New York Times is reporting that the bidding is on for the .net domain currently administered by VeriSign. VeriSign's current contract expires June 30th; applications are due today. Three companies are known to be interested: NeuStar, which currently manages .biz, Afilias, which manages .info, and Denic eG, a non-profit that manages the German .de domain. ICANN is bending over backward to avoid any suggestion of bias due to its conflict with VeriSign over VeriSign's Site Finder "service" and has appointed an independent team to evaluate the applications. VeriSign has been lobbying hard to keep the domain and is reported to have received letters of support from Microsoft and IBM."

2 of 194 comments (clear)

  1. Afilias uses PostgreSQL by bmomjian · · Score: 3, Informative

    Afilias uses PostgreSQL, so now we know who the Slashdot croud should be rooting for. See the last paragraph:

    http://www.active-domain.com/news/2002sep-5.htm

    In fact there is a seminar at Afilias starting tomorrow to plan a new multi-master replication solution for PostgreSQL, so they are very involved with open source.

  2. VeriSign gets in trouble regularly by iabervon · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article mentions SiteFinder, but before that VeriSign was sent fraudulent email to owners of domains registered through other registrars, and just this weekend they transferred panix.com (registered through a different registrar) to a hijacker. Considering the way the seem to have blown off both the rightful owner of the domain and law enforcement, I think it would be appropriate to take into account the possibility that VeriSign will be convicted of computer crimes and banned from computers by court order within the period of this contract when deciding whether to give it to them.