The Race Is On For .net

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."

Comments

How do you know...

[Tackhead]

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.

Not for profit

[wertarbyte]

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."

Re:Anyone but Verisign

[wertarbyte]

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)

Re:Fraud

[simcop2387]

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

Re:Anyone but Verisign

[maxwell demon]

So who would you suggest? Microsoft? The US Govt?

SCO! :-)