Re: protecting a domain name

On Thu, Mar 25, 1999, Michael Juhre <Michael.Juhre[_at_]aig.com>
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 1999, Bob Deleault <rdeleault[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/23/99, Jessica Litman <litman[_at_]mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > NSI decommissioned its internic.net site over the weekend in favor of
> > > a new and more proprietary look at <http://www.networksolutions.com>
> >
> > I just visited the internic.com site. It was still operational for
> > searching and registering domain names.
>
> internic.com is different from internic.net. The former is owned by
> Internic Software of Victoria, Australia. The latter is owned by
> Network Solutions in Herndon, Virginia. Internic Software's home page
> disclaims any association to Network Solutions, though I myself have
> often wondered why Network Solutions ever permitted such a dilution of
> the name "Internic." This may be why internic.net has dissappeared and
> the browser automatically forwards to networksolutions.com -- perhaps
> they are leaving the name "Internic" behind and moving toward Network
> Solutions and NSI exclusively(?)

Internic is a AT&T trademark and not Network Solutions.

JK

Jan Kallberg
<jan[_at_]cyberdefense.com> Received on Fri Mar 26 1999 - 14:47:12 GMT