27 Feb
2004
27 Feb
'04
8:22 a.m.
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
Verisign is really two entities wrt .com/net - it is the registry and the registrar. As a registrar it occupies the same position as the many other registrars.. tucows, melbourne, joker etc .. as a registry it occupies a privileged position in that it is the only entity responsible for managing and maintaining the gtld servers and zonefiles.
Verisign sold off NetSol to Pivotal Private Equity last year for 100 million, which takes them out of the registrar space and leaves them as the registry. -mark -- Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> Co-founder, easyDNS Technologies Inc. ph. +1-(416)-535-8672 ext 225 fx. +1-(416)-535-0237