Correction... People would prefer that Verisign keept the REGISTRAR operations for .com/.net and sold the REGISTRY operations. REGISTRY is the monopoly part that the REGISTRARs feed into.
Owen
--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:58 PM +0100 Simon Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 11:19:25AM -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote:So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies?
Isn't that what we wanted all along?
Yes, except I think that people would prefer that Verisign kept .com/.net registry operations (because they can choose not to use them), and sold the GTLD operations to someone else ;-)
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