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The Race Is On For .net

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-about-dot-p-e-t? dept.

mikrorechner writes "As reported previously, ICANN is looking for a new registrar for the .net tld. The biddings are in now, and The Register has a lengthy article about the five contenders. Their guess is that only two really have a chance: VeriSign and DeNIC. We will know more in two months."

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  1. microsoft by myukew · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't .Net (c) by Microsoft already?

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  2. Anyone but Verisign by H_Fisher · · Score: 4, Insightful
    P. J. O'Rourke wrote that giving money and power to government was like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. With VeriSign's track record being what it is, I'd say that giving them .net might end up being the same kind of bad decision.

    I know there's no totally-impartial, non-profit-driven corporation or entity that can do this job well, but Verisign's past practices ("Site Finder" and its blind ignorance of how the Internet should work is a perfect example) have led me to see them as worse than the rest of the pack. I simply don't trust them to do the job right because they can't understand that the Internet != the WWW.

    1. Re:Anyone but Verisign by wertarbyte · · Score: 5, Informative

      I know there's no totally-impartial, non-profit-driven corporation or entity that can do this job well,

      Actually, DeNIC is a non-profit organization (http://www.denic.de/en/denic/index.html), and they manage 8336375 .de-Domains at the moment (http://www.denic.de/en/domains/statistiken/index. html)

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    2. Re:Anyone but Verisign by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny
      So who would you suggest? Microsoft? The US Govt?

      SCO! :-)
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  3. Re:Fraud by randomblast · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Anybody knows who to complain or what to do to take this idiot down?

    Yeah, post the link to slashdot...

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  4. How do you know... by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    Q: How do you know your sysadmin is on the phone with a Verisign rep?

    A: You can hear screams of "YOU FUCKING INCOMPETENT COCKSUCKERS!" from six cubes away rather than the usual three.

  5. Not for profit by wertarbyte · · Score: 5, Interesting
    As you can see here, DeNIC is an organization that does not aim for profit:

    "In Deutschland ist es die DENIC, die diese Aufgabe als "designated administrator" im Sinne des RFC1591 übernommen hat. Sie erfüllt sie ohne Gewinnerzielungsabsicht zum Nutzen und Wohle der gesamten deutschen Internet Community, neutral und unabhängig, fachkundig und verantwortungsbewusst, diskriminierungsfrei und in Übereinstimmung mit den international anerkannten Standards für den Betrieb einer Domain-Registrierungsstelle."

    This roughly translates to

    "In germany, DeNic took this duty as 'designated administrator' according to RFC1591. It achieves its duty without any aim for financial profits, but for the benefit of the hole internet community, neutrally and independently, competently and responsibly, withouth discrimination and in accordance to international standards for domain registration services."

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  6. root for Afilias by MagicMerlin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Afilias runs the .org domain on PostgreSQL. It has been pretty smooth, no matter what the article says, and it was a huge embarassment for Oracle who ran a huge disinformation campaign against PostgreSQL and open source in general.

    Merlin

  7. Re:Fraud by simcop2387 · · Score: 5, Funny

    fraud you say?
    i just bought nsswitch.com from them!