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NSI Loses Records

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the god-bless-the-nic dept.

ttyler sent us a link to a little techweb bit talking about NSI Losing Records from the DNS. Supposedly as many as 18,000. Mentions a nice conspiracy theory that this is a plot to promote their new registration service before they lose their monopoly in the not so distant future.

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  1. The Rest of the Story by Fastolfe · · Score: 2

    It seems that, while InterNIC claims this was an attempt to prune the delinquant squatters, most of the domains dropped were those that were due up for payment (or repayment) during the month of March. Rumor has it that an additional 7k domains were lost the following monday night bringing the total to 25k.

    To make matters worse, InterNIC seems to be telling people that they need to re-register their lost domains with WorldNIC instead of InterNIC (at $119 instead of $70). Can we say "motive"? I know of several people that have had their lost domains re-registered by someone *else*. Talk about a bad day...

    Another interesting article.