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Re: worldnic

  • From: Steve Sobol
  • Date: Sun Jun 07 18:58:27 1998

On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 11:06:30AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > 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]: 
> 
> No, you just don't read the right magazines; they've been advertising
> this bit o' drivel for months now.  They're "repositioning" themselves,
> I'd say; you see: InterNIC has a bad reputation around these here
> parts.
> 
> But "WorldNIC" doesn't; ain't it great?!

WorldNIC charges for looking up domains (basically doing a whois) --
some others charge for this too.

IIRC.

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