IP: Web management co. raises feds' ire --[ but will they do anything about it for REAL djf]

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558915275-a05

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government-selected company that assigns most of the world's Internet addresses made a surprise 
move to steer customers of an important Web directory to its private commercial site, and the government wants to know 
why. "We're very concerned," Becky Burr, administrator with the Commerce Department, said Tuesday. "This was undertaken 
without consultation with the U.S. government." People trying to visit the popular "Internic" directory - which checks 
the availability of a new Web address - are unexpectedly being swept automatically instead to the home page for Network 
Solutions Inc., which offers to register Internet addresses with the com, net or org suffixes for $119. See full story