On Sun, 22 Feb 2026, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
I think Network Solutions *is* in charge of gtld-servers.net
No, that hasn't been the case for over 20 years.
I guess I mean what’s left of them, and what is now called Verisign.
The names on the domain haven’t changed, the stack has just changed owners.
In 2000, Verisign bought Network Solutions which was the registry for
.COM, .NET, and .ORG. As part of the process that created ICANN, in 2003
Verisign spun off NetSol as a registrar, and transferred .ORG to PIR,
owned by the Internet Society. They kept the .COM and .NET registries.
These days NetSol has been rolled up into Newfold Digital along with a lot
of other registrars and hosting providers like web.com and Bluehost.
Verisign is bigger than Newfold (most of whose income comes from stuff
other than the registrars) and much bigger than PIR. The only other
registry/registrar of similar size is Godaddy. None of this should be
a surprise to anyone.
But anyway, Verisign talks to registrars, and registrars talk to
customers. If a glue record is broken, you need to talk to the registrar
that is responsible for it. If we knew what the record was we could
easily tell which registrar it is.
R's,
John
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