Hello all.
This will apply only to NEW domains or to all teh ones already registered?.
I mean in my country when the NIC change rules those rules can not be
applied to existent domains.
JB
At 02:54 p.m. 01/03/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello
> How can I read the article without being a subscriber of WSJ
> (wall street
>journal)?
>I had seen something yesterday on zdnet from Feb 8
>http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2683801,00.html
>also today same story
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2691370,00.html
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:18 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Fwd: Verisign will surrender control of .org and .net
>
>
>
>See below.
>
>Quick summary:
>1) Verisign wants to give up .org and .net (they don't make much money on
>them anyway) to retain the .com registry *and* be allowed to hold on to
>their registrar operations.
>2) ICANN wants to restrict .org to non-profits only "a restriction that
>hasn't been enforced in recent years" -- actually .org was for *all*
>organizations that were not either .commercial or .network infrastructure,
>for example we registered our family domain in .org my family is not
>commercial nor are we network infrastructure but were not non-profit
>either! If they enforce "non-profit" only, i.e. you need to have
>non-profit tax status, there goes our family domain.
>
>---
>http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB983413593429062903.htm
>
>VeriSign to Surrender Control Over 'Org,'
>'Net' Web-Address Suffixes, Keeping 'Com'
>
>By TED BRIDIS
>Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
>WASHINGTON -- VeriSign Inc., which coordinates the world's master list of
>Web addresses, has agreed to surrender control over "org" and "net" suffixes
>in exchange for keeping long-term rights to manage lucrative "com" names.
>
>Under terms of the surprise deal expected to be announced Thursday, VeriSign
>wouldn't be compelled to spin off the part of its business that sells Web
>addresses to consumers. That had been a requirement of a landmark 1999
>agreement with the Clinton administration, which allowed VeriSign to retain
>long-term management control over the Internet's master list of addresses.
>
>Executives involved in the talks say the agreement was driven by VeriSign's
>falling market share for sales of new Web addresses. VeriSign currently
>sells fewer than half the world's 28.2 million Web addresses ending in
>"com," "net" or "org" -- a big shift from its monopoly until June 1999.
>There are now dozens of companies that sell Web addresses, though only
>VeriSign, until now, has controlled the registry of addresses, for which it
>collects a percentage of every sale.
>
>The new agreement preserves VeriSign's control over the "com" master list
>through 2007 and promises the company a special "presumption" that it will
>be allowed to continue in that role afterward. Currently, dot-com addresses
>comprise about 80% of the world's Web addresses.
>
>Another factor driving the deal was that the perceived need for VeriSign to
>split into two businesses -- one to manage the master list of Web addresses,
>another to sell addresses -- had faded of late, as competitors no longer
>feared the registry gave the company an unfair sales advantage.
>
>The deal was quietly hammered out this week between VeriSign and the
>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Icann, a nonprofit
>group that manages many of the Internet's core functions. Icann's board will
>formally vote on the agreement by April 1. The deal also must be approved by
>the Commerce Department. VeriSign's board is expected to approve the deal.
>
>The agreement would effectively create three separate Internet registries to
>replace the current unified one. But officials at Icann and VeriSign said
>the change wouldn't disrupt Internet operations and that consumers likely
>won't notice since the agreement deals largely with behind-the-scenes
>issues. Icann is currently creating seven new Internet registries to manage
>new domain names such as "biz," "info" and "museum." Those registries would
>be separate from VeriSign, which in June 2000 purchased Network Solutions
>Inc., original holder of the domain-name monopoly.
>
>Under the deal, VeriSign would permanently surrender control of "org"
>addresses by December 2002. The company also would establish an endowment of
>$5 million toward the future operation of "org" addresses. It further agreed
>to spend $200 million in research over 10 years toward making Internet
>registries more efficient.
>
>Icann indicated that it wants "org" Web addresses reserved only for
>nonprofit organizations "after some appropriate transition period," a
>restriction that hasn't been enforced in recent years. Details haven't been
>worked out, though one Icann official suggested that current "org" Web sites
>may be allowed to continue regardless of their affiliation with nonprofits.
>
>VeriSign also will agree to give up control over "net" Web addresses by
>January 2006; it would be allowed to bid for future rights to run that
>registry, but approval by Icann was considered highly unlikely.
>
>Write to Ted Bridis at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
