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Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal
From: "Brian Bruns" <bruns () 2mbit com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:09:16 -0400
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Blayzor" <rblayzor () inoc net> To: "Sean Donelan" <sean () donelan com>; <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 5:01 PM Subject: Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal
Quiet honestly I'd like to see all of the GTLD servers given to neutral companies, ones that ARE not registrars. Verisign is already engaging in
a
lot of unfair business practices because they hold the GTLD servers for net/com. The wildcard SNAFU is just one of their tactics to patch the financial hole since people have been switching registrars in droves.
I've had long discussions with my admin team at the SOSDG on what would be the best way to prevent stuff like this from happening in the future. We came to the following conclusion: * Root servers or any critical DNS servers should not be in the control of companies. It should be handed over to Non-profit/not-for-profit orgs who will not be tempted to do the things Verisign has done. We feel completely comfortable with the root servers being in control of a group like the ISC or even govt. agencies like NASA. There is too much at stake here for people to be playing games with TLDs, especially ones as important as .com and .net. -------------------------- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources http://www.2mbit.com ICQ: 8077511
Current thread:
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated, (continued)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Roy (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Robert Blayzor (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Paul Vixie (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Sean Donelan (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Paul Vixie (Sep 20)
- When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Sean Donelan (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Robert Blayzor (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Paul Vixie (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Henry Linneweh (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Jared Mauch (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Sean Donelan (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Brian Bruns (Sep 20)
- Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal Robert Blayzor (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Roy (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Eric A. Hall (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Owen DeLong (Sep 20)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Daniel Roesen (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated E.B. Dreger (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Eric A. Hall (Sep 21)
- Re: VeriSign SMTP reject server updated Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 21)