Verisign to sell Network Solutions

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1

This is interesting:

      Dear Valued Network Solutions� Customer,

      Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive
agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal
Private Equity.

Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
(419) 720-3635

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2

Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their
site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will
still be the people maintaining the com and net registries.

3

so, luxury hotels, japanese fiber, and registery services?
I guess booking is a booking.

http://www.pivotalgroup.com/newsopen.html

Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services
Computing Center University of Oregon
llynch @darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998

4

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?

-C

5

: Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their
: site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will
: still be the people maintaining the com and net registries.

Which sounds like an attempt to prevent conflict-of-interest assertions
about things like Sitefinder. (Maybe their registrar business isn't so
profitable after all, and they'd rather get the advertising revenue.)

6

It is a much better idea that these functions are performed by a
seperate (IMHO). Of course they are doing it to resolve the conflict of
interest issue, and the people saying (and filing suit) about the fact
that SiteFinder is un-fair competition between them and the other
registrars.

I'm not really sure that this is the ideal resolution (or a resolution
at all for the conflict of interest piece at all), because they are
still maintaining a 15% stake in the NetSol entity. But IANAL so..

While these events are intersting, I think its best that we move the
focus back to the very operational issue of Sitefinders affect on the
internet. Hopefully (while unlikely) this transition should have little
or no effect on the DNS system at large. While this might not turn out
to be the case, he can hope, can't we?

7

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 :wink:

Simon

8

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

9

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:19:25 -0400
From: Chris Woodfield

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?

I wonder just how different they are, and what deals are being
made under the table.

Eddy