Pennies in interest on $6.42 over a 5 day period, I doubt too much interest on their money. Keep in mind, Verisign and Network Solutions are in bed with each other.
Overall, a Registrar (Network Solutions) has to either run on credit with the Shared Registry System (Verisign-GRS) or have funds in their account with the SRS. NetSol just tied up a little over $6 in their credit and will immediately delete the domain if not purchased in 5 day.
Where it will HURT NetSol is that if there were some sort of "glitch" in their system to NOT delete the wildcard domains in 5 days, then they'll be stuck with it. The timer is running at Verisign-GRS for all the crazy domains people are now registering. After 5 days are up and the Registrar doesn't send an EPP command to delete the domains, they will be the proud owners of them.
Can you imagine the nightmare it's going to create with all those Trademark monitoring organizations out there like MarkMonitor? Can you imagine if you queried high-profile trademark domains such as: MicrosoftSunCiscoWalMartIBMFord.com and they "reserved" the names?
I just hit it and looks like they now own it.
Domain Name: MICROSOFTSUNCISCOWALMARTIBMFORD.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
Name Server: NS1.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Name Server: NS2.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 08-jan-2008
Creation Date: 08-jan-2008
Expiration Date: 08-jan-2009
Since Network Solutions registered the domain, I'm sure its triggering a response to MarkMonitor's "clients". I'm sure MarkMonitor and the other TM moitoring sites are going crazy now.
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More likely to be a directed EMP or something similar from China.
U.S. Defense Report: China Working on Anti-Satellite Systems
http://www.space.com/news/050727_china_military.html
Pennies in interest on $6.42 over a 5 day period, I doubt too much interest on their money. Keep in mind, Verisign and Network Solutions are in bed with each other.
Overall, a Registrar (Network Solutions) has to either run on credit with the Shared Registry System (Verisign-GRS) or have funds in their account with the SRS. NetSol just tied up a little over $6 in their credit and will immediately delete the domain if not purchased in 5 day.
Where it will HURT NetSol is that if there were some sort of "glitch" in their system to NOT delete the wildcard domains in 5 days, then they'll be stuck with it. The timer is running at Verisign-GRS for all the crazy domains people are now registering. After 5 days are up and the Registrar doesn't send an EPP command to delete the domains, they will be the proud owners of them.
Can you imagine the nightmare it's going to create with all those Trademark monitoring organizations out there like MarkMonitor? Can you imagine if you queried high-profile trademark domains such as: MicrosoftSunCiscoWalMartIBMFord.com and they "reserved" the names?
I just hit it and looks like they now own it.
Domain Name: MICROSOFTSUNCISCOWALMARTIBMFORD.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
Name Server: NS1.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Name Server: NS2.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 08-jan-2008
Creation Date: 08-jan-2008
Expiration Date: 08-jan-2009
Since Network Solutions registered the domain, I'm sure its triggering a response to MarkMonitor's "clients". I'm sure MarkMonitor and the other TM moitoring sites are going crazy now.
No just two... Server: a.gov.zoneedit.com Address: 216.55.155.29 Name: www.fbi.gov Served by: - DNS.SPRINTIP.COM fbi.gov - DNS2.SPRINTIP.COM fbi.gov - ns3.vericenter.COM fbi.gov - ns4.vericenter.COM fbi.gov - ns5.vericenter.COM fbi.gov - ns6.vericenter.COM fbi.gov