Re: Network Solutions on TV

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick () namesecure com>]

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Leo Bicknell wrote:

>       That's right, in TV ads...
>
>       "Network Solutions activates more dot com domains than
>  any other ISP"....."use Network Solutions, the dot com people."
>
>       This actually raises an operational concern.  A little
> traceroute will show you that www.networksolutions.com and
> the worldnic stuff are down the same pipes as the internic.net
> stuff.  With the DNS problems of the past few days, one has
> to ask, would "internic" activities have worked just fine if
> Network Solutions had not been using some {small,large} amount
> of the bandwidth for their other commercial activities.
>
>       Not that I hold out any hope of the two activities using
> separate facilities, but it would be nice.

Such seperation is mandated by the latest Amendment to the Cooperative
Agreement between the U.S. Government and NSI. However it doesn't have to
occur for several months still.


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