Re: protecting a domain name

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Michael Juhre <michael.juhre[_at_]aig.com> wrote:
>
> 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(?)

For those of you interested in this subject there is an ABC News wire report from yesterday at:

   http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/netsol990326.html

that covers the subject fairly succinctly.

Don Roemer
<droe2[_at_]earthlink.net> Received on Sat Mar 27 1999 - 13:19:13 GMT