I would like to thank the anonymous party who sent the email below. It confirms the rumors I had heard related to the cause of the latest InterNIC SNAFU.
Subject: What does the NIC in InterNIC mean? "Network Incompetence Consortium" (fwd) To: John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net
The service from InterNIC has been really poor for the last couple of weeks, and they finally admitted what the problem is, but only to their Premier Partners, and only after making up lots of other stories to cover it up first.
Please keep me anonymous, don't use my name.
InterNIC admitted that they are being massively flooded by domain speculators trying to register domains that are On Hold. It's happened before, but this time it's far and away worse than ever before. They said they expect to have it resolved in a few days, which I believe means that they're seeking legal injunctions against one or more offenders. From what I've heard, these speculators are sending registration templates for hundreds of domains every second, going far beyond their capacity.
It seems that the Network Solutions/The InterNIC is following the lead of the politicians. Lie about it until you're caught and then refuse to talk about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ML.ORG is gone. Check out http://www.EZ-IP.Net - It's *FREE* ------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your *FREE* Parked Domain account at http://www.EZ-Hosting.Com ------------------------------------------------------------------ John Fraizer | __ _ | The System Administrator | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ | The choice mailto:John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / | of a GNU http://www.EnterZone.Net/ | /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ | Generation PGP Key fingerprint = 7DB6 1CA2 DAA6 43DA 3AAF 44CD 258C 3D7E B425 81A8