Verisign Recommended to Keep .com & .net

An Anonymous SAIC Employee writes "The 'independent' company hired by ICANN to advise them on who should run the .com and .net registry has recommended that Verisign (fact sheet) should be chosen to continue to run the registry. Is it any surprise? Telcordia was owned by SAIC (Fact Sheet) during the time the study was conducted. SAIC bought Telcordia (fact sheet) (then Bellcore) in Nov. 1997 and sold it March 15, 2005. Network Solutions was bought by SAIC in 1995 and sold in 2000. Also, Telcordia worked with Verisign on the ENUM project. Is the fox guarding the hen house?"

Comments

And this is different how...?

[werewolf1031]

Um, what exactly does this change?

Right. Nothing. Just checking.

heh

[DiscoOnTheSide]

something tells me the guy who wrote that is a champ at "5 Degrees from Kevin Bacon" :P

Thank Odin noone is being bribed

[WillAffleckUW]

it's just no-bid contracts.

SNAFU.

What am I missing?

[The Amazing Fish Boy]

Is SAIC the 'independent company'? Who's the fox? What henhouse? I'm not sure who's doing what, here.

Time for another ICANN meeting in an exotic locale

[Anonymous Coward]

This sounds like an important issue. We should fly ICANN officials to another exotic destination!

Well, of course

[Anonymous Coward]

Wasn't the dot-com boom the veri sign of .NET coming in the first place?

*ducks*

Re:Oh no!

[TrappedByMyself]

Switch it up every few years, to keep these guys on their toes and not let them get too comfortable/corrupt.

Oh, you mean like the Presidentcy?

...kind of like...

[x2A]

Virtually every company in the IT world is connected to each other. Its like a big

...network!