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First Domain Registration Competition Goes Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the competition-is-good dept.

Asher Lev writes "The first competition for domain name registration is now online. They aren't offering any deals, but you can check it out anyway at register.com. "

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  1. Re:Simultaneous reg of same domain. Who wins? by tk · · Score: 3

    All of the "Registrars" (currently NSI and Register.com) are using a central db called the "Shared Registry System", which is currently maintained by NSI. The Registry is the db of record for .com, .net, and .org, and registers domains on a first come first serve basis. See http://www.icann.org/QANDA.htm.

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  2. NSI stops all ISP domain related tech support? by BitDancer · · Score: 3

    So I do a normal, workaday 'whois' query, and today it says at the bottom:


    You agree that you will not reproduce, sell, transfer, or modify any of the data presented in response to your search request, or use of any such data for commercial purpose, without the prior express written permission of Network Solutions.

    Well, I most certainly do NOT agree! How can my tech support people help our domain customers if we can't make "commercial use" of the informtation returned by a whois query, for gnu's sake? There's noplace *else* to get this info. I just check register.com, and their whois page just queries the NSI database, and that same message shows up at the bottom of the response screen. Which, I'm sure, is why NSI put it there.

    NSI has been trying to claim that they have a compilation copyright (or something like that) on the current database. This smells like an attempt to assert that, and I sure hope the stuff hits the fan over this.

    This is intolerable.

    --Bitdancer

  3. Re:Almost useless, not quite. by IntlHarvester · · Score: 3


    Actually, if it would improve the service, most would be happy to pay $100 or more. Charging less than a hardcover book for a domain name only benefits the squatters and overloads the system.
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  4. Billions and Billions served by ethereal · · Score: 3

    They already have 741984 domains registered? I didn't think that they had been around long enough for that. Have they pre-registered a bunch of likely names and will then pass them on to the visitors to their site? That would be domain name squatting on their part.

    Or is the 741984 value the total number of domain names registered on the entire 'net, including those registered by NSI? In that case, they really shouldn't have that number on their page. I mean, I could start a hamburger stand and put up a sign saying "Billions and Billions sold", but that doesn't mean that I did the selling of them.

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  5. But What I wanna know is... by Dredd13 · · Score: 3

    ... can they take "existing" domains and do the renewals for them, or do I have to take a chance by letting my current domain "Expire", enter it as new with register.com and "hope" that nobody grabs it in the mean-time?

    I'd LOVE to start dumping money somewhere OTHER than NSI, but I'm not about to chance losing my domain to do it.

    Their site doesn't seem to make any mention of that and you would THINK they'd also be trying to make some go of grabbing renewal profits if they could do so...

  6. Things aren't going to get any better anytime soon by mathowie · · Score: 3


    The problem with the new registrars is that they still have to go through Network Solutions' horrible database system. Almost every problem I've had with my domains has been due to records not being changed in the NSI db, usually without any indication of what was wrong, and sometimes with no indication either way for days. I have friends that have sat for weeks while their dns change forms get denied over and over again.

    NSI's customer service is terrible, and I'd love to use another company that placed importance on customer satisfaction, but if you're having problems changing records on your dotcom records, I don't know how a second party like register.com can help.

    If NSI allowed a competing firm to build a web interface that let you edit your records directly (instead of having to use antiquated e-mail forms with cryptic functions and names all over them), I'd move my domains to the new firm immediately. But NSI has registered over 5 million domains (and making half a million a day on registration fees!) and wants to continue doing so, so you'll never see a competing firm offering more features, a better interface, or a price less than $35/yr.

    It's called a monopoly, and I think Network Solutions enjoys that status immensely.

  7. Re:More not new by Mephistoph · · Score: 3

    i believe you can find it at http://register.com/service-agreement.cgi . I had to go through the regisration process to find it.

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  8. TLDs? by Jahf · · Score: 3

    I was hoping they would have new TLDs ... where is -definitive- information on what new TLDs are going to be proffered and when they will activate?

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