.net Domain Up For Grabs

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."

Comments

Re:If VeriSign wants to keep it

[stratjakt]

Apple-esque... HAHHAHAHAH you're so easily duped.

MS's big flaw is a complete lack of innovation.

For example:

Embrace and extend.
Vendor lock-in
Forced obsolescense
Leveraging OS market position to destroy competition

IBM invented all of that. They've been fucking people over in the industry since the 40s.

Heh, they release 500 absolutely useless patents out of the million or so they own (read through the list, it's useless stuff), and all of a sudden you think they're all lovey-dovey and snuggly.

Re:Speaking of ethics...

[NeoSkandranon]

How do you figure it's unethical? Being a pyarmid scheme has nothing to do with whether it's legit or "right" or what have you.

In fact, my "free ipod" is due to be delivered by DHL this very afternoon. I'm sorry if you don't like it, but the sites work as advertised.