Re: protecting a domain name

On Fri, Mar 26, 1999, Jan Kallberg <jan[_at_]cyberdefense.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 1999, Michael Juhre <michael.juhre[_at_]aig.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Yes you're right, I didn't know that. I know this is off topic (IP) but what exactly is the relationship between Internic and NSI?

Michael R. Juhre
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<michael.juhre[_at_]aig.com> Received on Mon Mar 29 1999 - 16:07:14 GMT