.net Domain Up For Grabs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 18, 2005 @03:15AM 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."

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lets hope not by teh_mykel · 2005-01-18 03:17 · Score: 5, Funny

lets hope microsoft doesnt aquire .net domains, only to confuse the term further.

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Wait... I missed it... by Kierthos · 2005-01-18 03:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

When exactly did ICANN care about appearing impartial?

Why can't they just tell VeriSign something along the lines of "You fucked up. You thought you were all bad and shit. We're taking it away from you." and just let the other three companies mentioned bid for it and shut VeriSign out of the .net domain?

Kierthos

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Speaking of ethics... by nharmon · 2005-01-18 03:40 · Score: 5, Insightful

[i]Help me, get a free [freeminimacs.com] mini mac.[/i]

Call me crazy, but you don't see a problem with talking about ethics, and advertising some ipod/minimac pyramid scheme at the same time?

I say that for now on, we pledge to never mod up people with this bullcrap in their sigs.