>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: ROBERT X. CRINGELY(R): "Notes from the Field" from InfoWorld.com,
>Tuesday, October 3, 2000
>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:08:40 -0500
>
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>ROBERT X. CRINGELY(R): "Notes from the Field" InfoWorld.com
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>Network Solutions paranoia?
>
>Although some people are afraid of AT&T finding out
>what they watch on TV, a more insidious spying
>operation may be going on at Network Solutions (NSI),
>keeper of domain names.
>
>One reader reports that his company was in the process
>of coming up with a good name for one of its clients.
>In the process of brainstorming, the company did
>searches at NSI to check on the availability of those
>domains; all domains were available during the search.
>
>Yet once the company came to its decision, it found
>each of the domains had already been bought. This
>happened "in a matter of hours in one instance," the
>reader said.
>
>Has anyone else out there encountered a similar problem?
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sA
Scott Allan
Director OpenSRS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
