At long last, a reasonable soul among the rattle and hum. I have been piggybacking someone's unsecure network since I bought my laptop a month ago, and am enjoying my FREE wireless a lot. It reminds of the good old days when FreeNet and Lycos were free dial-up ISPs and NetZero was the scraggler. In a true Utopian Democracy (haha!) the Internet should and would be FREE. Thanks to goodhearts like you, the days of 95 are here again, if only for a brief shining moment. Keep the Wi-Fi light burning in the window.
The idea of Verisign splitting and selling off its Registrar division actually may be a signal of a more sinister corporate game plan. True, Network Solutions can't keep up with all the new discount registrars and it is known that Verisign has wanted to dump NetSol for over a year.
Now that the deal is apparently done, Verisign can return to several other duplicitious business efforts like SiteFinder and the even more pernicious WLS (Wait List Service), a joint project with Portland, Oregon-based SnapNames that allows cybersquatters and the like to reserve domain names pending their release from the global registry.
When this "service" was introduced about two years ago, it sparked an "anti-trust" outrage from more than a dozen ISPs about Verisign's and SnapNames' "extensive data mining attacks."
With the outcry, Verisign backed off. But now with the split, the game's afoot again.
Domain name registrants should be very, very concerned about this latest Verisign development.
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The simplicity of the problem is compounded by the complexity of the solution.
At long last, a reasonable soul among the rattle and hum. I have been piggybacking someone's unsecure network since I bought my laptop a month ago, and am enjoying my FREE wireless a lot. It reminds of the good old days when FreeNet and Lycos were free dial-up ISPs and NetZero was the scraggler. In a true Utopian Democracy (haha!) the Internet should and would be FREE. Thanks to goodhearts like you, the days of 95 are here again, if only for a brief shining moment. Keep the Wi-Fi light burning in the window.
The fundamental solution is compounded by the complexity of the problem.
The idea of Verisign splitting and selling off its Registrar division actually may be a signal of a more sinister corporate game plan. True, Network Solutions can't keep up with all the new discount registrars and it is known that Verisign has wanted to dump NetSol for over a year. Now that the deal is apparently done, Verisign can return to several other duplicitious business efforts like SiteFinder and the even more pernicious WLS (Wait List Service), a joint project with Portland, Oregon-based SnapNames that allows cybersquatters and the like to reserve domain names pending their release from the global registry. When this "service" was introduced about two years ago, it sparked an "anti-trust" outrage from more than a dozen ISPs about Verisign's and SnapNames' "extensive data mining attacks." With the outcry, Verisign backed off. But now with the split, the game's afoot again. Domain name registrants should be very, very concerned about this latest Verisign development.