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ICANN Moves To Disable Domain Tasting 137

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @09:09AM from the not-before-time dept.

jehnx writes "Following Google's crackdown on 'domain tasters', ICANN has voted unanimously to eliminate the free period that many domain buyers have been taking advantage of. At the same meeting they also discussed Network Solutions' front running but took no action on it."

Comment Re:Variablity in customer experience (Score 1) 340

by BitHog on Sunday December 02, 2007 @01:48PM (#21552631) Attached to: Is Comcast Heading the Way of the Dinosaur?

Verizon Fios does not require you to use their router. I have my linux router connected directly to the Fios. It is PPPoE without a password. For p2p with a couple thousand connections - any residential router goes south. I would hate to be without my Fios.

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:71.251.73.xx P-t-P:10.38.37.12 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:72336944 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:81517486 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:518539664 (494.5 MiB) TX bytes:1559355552 (1.4 GiB)

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