[geeks] Network Solutions rant

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:00:16AM -0700, Geoff Reed wrote:
> Heck, they are getting into the domain brokering business themselves, Imy 
> wife was looking for a domain for her brothers security business... turns 
> out the .COM version was registered all right... to Network Solutions :(

and i think they are up to shadey no good as well.  yesterday i went to NSI's
whois to lookup arkham.net and it said it was available.  today i get the
domain whore's records, but he registered this domain a week ago.  it takes
them a week to get their whois databases updated?  that's SLOW.

but the shadey part is you can "back-register" un-available domains for $50
from NSI.  that option doesn't seem to be available with the actualy record
there, so they were even going to try and play this guy for a week.

up to no good, and breaking some rule somewhere.  now is ICANN weren't a bunch
of puppets to NSI we could maybe do something about this.

-brian