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> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:32:49 -0400 (EDT) > From: Phillip Vandry <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: worldnic > To: Jon Lewis <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > I must not be on enough or the right lists...but what's the deal with > > worldnic.com? I'd not heard anything about it until today. I tried to move > > a domain (a .org domain) for a customer today, and got the following reply > > from [email protected]: > > > > Thank you for contacting Network Solutions, Inc., InterNIC > > Registration Services. > > > > The domain name you are attempting to update was registered > > through WorldNIC Services and should be updated via the following > > URL: > > > > http://www.worldnic.com Interesting. www.internic.com is a rip off company in Australia changing $200 to register a name. They send $100 to NSI and keep the other $100. I had a client do this and saw a badly messed up registration record (wrong DNS server and POCs) and fixed them. Then NIS billed for the $100 which had already been sent to Australia. Since my client was a lawyer, a couple of letters got $199 back! This looks like someone else doing the same thing. > > I got one of those two last night. > > I wouldn't consider it half as atrocious as it is, though, if it was > actually possible to find information about what exactly this worldnic > thing is and does on the web site! > > > This looks like Network Solutions taking advantage of its position as > > controller of the big three commercially used TLDs to find new ways to dip > > their fingers into another part of the pie...perhaps in anticipation of > > losing their monopoly on domain registrations. > > Since they are charging $119, which is move than the InterNIC fee, that > must be how they 'legalize' it. The normal fee goes to Internic, and > Worldnic keeps the rest. (And it's not supposed to matter in some > fictitious world that Worldnic and Internic are both Netsol) > > -Phil Dave Nordlund [email protected] University of Kansas 785/864-0450 Computing Services FAX 913/864-0485 Lawrence, KS 66045 KANREN
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