US Gov't irritated with NSI 41
Cjoh writes "Apparently Slashdot users aren't the only ones ticked off at the new Internic.net site change. The government is pretty ticked off too." I'd say that NSI recognizes their time is ending, as the switchover to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers draws near. Mmm...I just love crass commercialism!
Where do I go now to register domain name? (Score:1)
you can still find the old internic.net w3 site (Score:1)
OTOH, maybe a
Call 703-742-0400 or help@networksolutions.com (Score:4)
They will probably change it
Hey, they have to try (Score:1)
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Is the Registry proprietary info? (Score:1)
NSI believes that the InterNIC registry information that it's been gathering belongs to them, and they've been providing it free out of the goodness of their heart. That may change, though....(shameless plug -- I'm doing a piece for the weekend on ABCNEWS.com)
As for WHOIS, that's available under Member Services from the homepage. And no, you don't need to be a member.
And as for competition...I wouldn't be surprised if they couldn't drum up enough interest for others to take on NSI's 800-lb gorilla.
This whole thing is kinda weird. I would suggest everybody keeping an eye on this situation...it could get stranger.
Just enough to f'k us up. (Score:1)
Everyone who works with domains should get a whois client utility if you don't have one. The InterNIC web whois gateway takes too much time, and some of the International domains do not operate web interfaces to their whois databases. NetLab for Win32 has a decent whois, and Peter Lewis's Finger for MacOS is fine too. Of course, UN*X whois is ideal.
Researching domain names or in-addrs? See:
Domain Name Registries Around the World- links to every single registrar out there:
Survey The Net (previously the Martinet whois gateway)- multifunctional whois gateway that queries most everything, including ARIN and international TLD registries, with no fuss:
-MAOi
... to make money honestly! (Score:2)
blah (Score:2)
Their monopoly time is running out and price tag is still the same.
"ftp" is alive, proce is the same... (Score:1)
Unfortunately, I can't locate anything on their web site that mentions these facilities are available. For the newcomer to the world of domain names, their web site leads them into believing they must subscribe to NetSol's value-added services.
Yes, they're a company, and yes they have a legal right to go out there and tout their wares, but InterNIC.net in the past was always handled as a public resource, with information and links that were used quite frequently by DNS administrators and the technically competant. NetSol has basically removed most all of these "public" services and have turned the previously community resources into something proprietary and decidedly commercial.
Missing a vital point (Score:4)
The WHOIS database has to date been treated as a community resource, but NetSol is making it as proprietary as they can, to suit their own business interests. In the process, they're making our lives extremely difficult by making it nearly impossible to retrieve information about domains and contacts or to retrieve domain name templates and the like to manage domains/contacts by any means other than NetSol's web forms (which many of you will agree are extremely painful when we're used to e-mail templates).
The bottom line is that they've taken information and services that were once very public and widely used and without any warning whatsoever either dropped many of these services altogether or bastardized them to the point where many are all but useless. They did this so that everyone would have to interact with them through a single interface: the Network Solutions corporate web site, where they can now mislead you and try and sell you hundreds of dollars of crap that you don't need. It's all about ethics.
Where do I go now to register domain name? (Score:1)
The *.internic.net forwards there now. You need to dig around until you find the right place to go.
What pisses me of most about this, is their blurb about also registering
But then, that's corporate greed for you.
Fucking dinosaurs. Get out of our digital age.
Did they just jack up the price while I blinked? (Score:1)
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Surprise to me (Score:1)
I just talked to all of the InterNIC guys at the IETF, just two days before NSI pulled this stunt. Either NSI is really good at keeping their techie guys ignorant of upcoming policies, or the techies are really good at keeping their mouths shut.
Thoughts q (Score:1)
voice recognition.
Is there anyone, native-speaker-of-English or not,
whe mistakes "are" with "our", or "loose" with "lose"?
Or is it that freshman English isn't the barrier
it used to be?
http://www.alternic.net (Score:3)
AlterNIC is a "cool" idea, but it's hardly a viable alternative for anybody right now. AlterNIC domains only work from sites which have added their info to their root servers info.
It's difficult to find any DNS servers that do have the AlterNIC TLDs added in. More importantly, it's even more difficult to find systems configured by default with the AlterNIC TLDs preconfigured.
If you want to use a domain to do business or reach people, "an-overly-long-domain-name.com" will still have a better chance than a nice, short, AlterNIC domain. Why? Because only a trivially small percentage of people will have any chance of reaching your domain unless you have a domain that's in the "standard" list of TLDs.
And if you were brave enough to try and register and 'push' both domains, you'd be running too much of a risk that lots of people would try the AlterNIC domain and give up without trying the 'normal' domain.
It'd be nice if AlterNIC were a viable alternative, but it's currently nowhere close to being that. Too bad.
Everyone complaing about networksolutions.com (Score:1)
NTIA [doc.gov] and ICANN [icann.org] may also be good sources to voice opinions to concerning this sudden change Network Solutions has performed.
Even more agrevious... (Score:1)
Is that they are under a government contract, and are trying to claim that they own the work from that contract, not the government. I'd love to see the actual contract between the USgov and NSI.
It's also much more than just ethics. There's now alot of civil law involved now.
With the story on the Federal Courts considering domain names property, the "redirection" of internic.net to NSI is (ahem) interesting. The gov't is effectively having its domain "stolen" by NSI. I can see this as a perfect excuse for the gov't to terminate their contract, demand the contents of the WHOIS and registry databases, and walking away from NSI.
Here's to hoping they do exactly that.
-Erik
I've heard this song before. (Score:1)
Netsol wouldn't have to pull this stunt if they actually did a good job, and had a good reputation. Let's face it -- they done a lousy job, and they're resorting to cheap tricks like that in order to stay ahead.
They know that the jig is up, and are grasping at straws. If I ever need to register any more domains, no way I would pick Netsol, if I have a choice.
I can't help but see a parallel between Netsol's shtick, and MS forcing IE down everyone's throat, in order to kill the competition - NS.
Brand recognition (Score:1)
So, come to Network Solutions to Register the Web Address you need... we're the dot com people and we've put more
Funny how that works when you have a "lucrative, exclusive government agreement"!!! And luckily it's with the government of internet inventor, Al Gore.
$70 for Domain + $49 for Network Solutions Perks (Score:2)
Listed below that, it also mentions you can REGISTER your address for a mere $70 for two years, but you need an ISP to manage it for you, then. So the option IS still there, but not at all clear that it's sufficient, and you don't need to pay the $119. Once you get to the point where you actually choose one or the other, it makes the pretty obvious, but still...
The webpage is designed to make it look like you have two options for your domain - hosted by Network Solutions, or hosted by someone else, when in actuality, you have a domain ($70 for two years) and another $49 for Network Solutions, just another ISP in this regard, to host the simple 'Under Construction' page + DNS servers. Just putting a spin on the text, though, but could snare unsuspecting people in.
The agony is not over (Score:4)
This means, in effect, that the other registrars will have to give a cut of their proceeds to their competitor NSI.
NSI has proven to be a marginally competent, arrogant, greedy, empire-building bureaucracy.
Something needs to be done.
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Call 703-742-0400 or help@networksolutions.com (Score:1)
If I were a moderator, I would give you a score of 2.
Did they just jack up the price while I blinked? (Score:1)
*Sigh*... You know, I was totally okay with having a single organization for domain names, I didn't mind the fact that it was a govt-sponsored monopoly, as long as it was quick, convenvient and did what it was supposed to. Now the internic seems to be following the trend of software bloat, focusing on self-promotion instead of doing its job.
both dead now (Score:1)
Man they suck
this is a bit out of hand (Score:1)
Did they just jack up the price while I blinked? (Score:2)
It's still $70 to register a name the old-fashioned way. They refer to "their" way as "Reservation" and to the "old" (and correct) way as "Registration".
Damned Internet Rapists.
http://www.alternic.net (Score:1)
Business is business. (Score:1)
Web adresses? (Score:1)
Web adresses? (Score:1)
In short, the corporates have taken over the net, so the Internet service companies have to be dumbed down by at least seventy IQ points. A hundred and ten if the site in question is being read by account managers and marketing staff.
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"If it's a bad idea, trash it. If it's a good idea, steal it and release the source code."
Going even further down hill? (Score:1)
domains, domains, domains & dso.net (Score:1)