Network Solutions, Inc -- domain name space (Score 1)

That's ludicrous! How in [gG]od'?s name can NSI claim to own someone else's intellectual property, especially intellectual property that is not yet resolved? The registration process and service, certainly. This sounds to me that NSI is claiming to own the entire domain name space including all domain names that are not yet registered.

How, then, can other registrars compete unless they license names from NSI? I guess this makes me one of N monkeys at a keyboard providing NSI with values from its perceived name space. However, it occurs to me that, perhaps, I'm not a customer/client of NSI but an employee since I'm contributing to the resolution/solution of their name space. If this is case, then I want to know what my benefits are!

My common sense tells me that this is just not constitutional.