Verisign to sell Network Solutions
This is interesting: Dear Valued Network Solutions® Customer, Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635 begin 666 clear.gif K1TE&.#EA`0`!`( ``````````"'Y! $`````+ `````!``$```("1 $`.P`` ` end
Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will still be the people maintaining the com and net registries. On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:29, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
This is interesting:
Dear Valued Network Solutions Customer,
Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity.
Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635
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so, luxury hotels, japanese fiber, and registery services? I guess booking is a booking. http://www.pivotalgroup.com/newsopen.html Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing Center University of Oregon llynch @darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998 On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Adam C. Greenfield wrote:
Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will still be the people maintaining the com and net registries.
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:29, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
This is interesting:
Dear Valued Network Solutions Customer,
Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity.
Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635
begin 666 clear.gif K1TE&.#EA`0`!`( ``````````"'Y! $`````+ `````!``$```("1 $`.P`` ` end -- Adam C. Greenfield (agreenfield@jtlnet.com) Senior Systems Engineer JTL Networks Inc. (614) 847-9790
So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Isn't that what we wanted all along? -C On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:58:11AM -0400, Adam C. Greenfield wrote:
Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will still be the people maintaining the com and net registries.
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:29, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
This is interesting:
Dear Valued Network Solutions Customer,
Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity.
Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635
begin 666 clear.gif K1TE&.#EA`0`!`( ``````````"'Y! $`````+ `````!``$```("1 $`.P`` ` end -- Adam C. Greenfield (agreenfield@jtlnet.com) Senior Systems Engineer JTL Networks Inc. (614) 847-9790
It is a much better idea that these functions are performed by a seperate (IMHO). Of course they are doing it to resolve the conflict of interest issue, and the people saying (and filing suit) about the fact that SiteFinder is un-fair competition between them and the other registrars. I'm not really sure that this is the ideal resolution (or a resolution at all for the conflict of interest piece at all), because they are still maintaining a 15% stake in the NetSol entity. But IANAL so.. While these events are intersting, I think its best that we move the focus back to the very operational issue of Sitefinders affect on the internet. Hopefully (while unlikely) this transition should have little or no effect on the DNS system at large. While this might not turn out to be the case, he can hope, can't we? On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:19, Chris Woodfield wrote:
So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies?
Isn't that what we wanted all along?
-C
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:58:11AM -0400, Adam C. Greenfield wrote:
Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will still be the people maintaining the com and net registries.
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:29, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
This is interesting:
Dear Valued Network Solutions Customer,
Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity.
Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635
begin 666 clear.gif K1TE&.#EA`0`!`( ``````````"'Y! $`````+ `````!``$```("1 $`.P`` ` end -- Adam C. Greenfield (agreenfield@jtlnet.com) Senior Systems Engineer JTL Networks Inc. (614) 847-9790
-- Adam C. Greenfield (agreenfield@jtlnet.com) Senior Systems Engineer JTL Networks Inc. (614) 847-9790
On Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 11:19:25AM -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote:
So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies?
Isn't that what we wanted all along?
Yes, except I think that people would prefer that Verisign kept .com/.net registry operations (because they can choose not to use them), and sold the GTLD operations to someone else ;-) Simon -- Simon Lockhart | Tel: +44 (0)1628 407720 (x37720) | Si fractum Technology Manager | Fax: +44 (0)1628 407701 (x37701) | non sit, noli BBC Internet Operations | Email: Simon.Lockhart@bbc.co.uk | id reficere BBC Technology, Maiden House, Vanwall Road, Maidenhead. SL6 4UB. UK
Correction... People would prefer that Verisign keept the REGISTRAR operations for .com/.net and sold the REGISTRY operations. REGISTRY is the monopoly part that the REGISTRARs feed into. Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:58 PM +0100 Simon Lockhart <simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
On Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 11:19:25AM -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote:
So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies?
Isn't that what we wanted all along?
Yes, except I think that people would prefer that Verisign kept .com/.net registry operations (because they can choose not to use them), and sold the GTLD operations to someone else ;-)
Simon -- Simon Lockhart | Tel: +44 (0)1628 407720 (x37720) | Si fractum Technology Manager | Fax: +44 (0)1628 407701 (x37701) | non sit, noli BBC Internet Operations | Email: Simon.Lockhart@bbc.co.uk | id reficere BBC Technology, Maiden House, Vanwall Road, Maidenhead. SL6 4UB. UK
CW> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:19:25 -0400 CW> From: Chris Woodfield CW> So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the CW> registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance CW> operations for .com/.net will be owned by different CW> companies? I wonder just how different they are, and what deals are being made under the table. Eddy -- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita _________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses : blacklist@brics.com -or- alfra@intc.net -or- curbjmp@intc.net Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Adam C. Greenfield wrote: : Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their : site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will : still be the people maintaining the com and net registries. Which sounds like an attempt to prevent conflict-of-interest assertions about things like Sitefinder. (Maybe their registrar business isn't so profitable after all, and they'd rather get the advertising revenue.) -- -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
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