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Network Solutions has made changes to the domain registration process after being accused of front-running. Domain front-running is the process of a Registrar registering a domain as soon as a user searches for the available name. By doing this, Registrars effectively lock out other Registrars. In attempting to curtail this, …
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After their case against ICANN was dismissed in a federal district court, VeriSign is now taking their case to the California Superior court. The case against ICANN faults the organization for banning VeriSign’s new SiteFinder service through their Network Solutions division.…
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The original owner of the domain sex.com and VeriSign have reached a settlement. The lawsuit alleged that Network Solutions was liable for transferring the stolen domain without getting proper authorization. The landmark case essentially considered domain names actual property. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but source say it …
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Network Solutions recently blocked Google queries of its public whois database. The problem arose when Google launched a new service allowing visitors to perform whois searches, which is a look up of a domain name owners information. The service ended up receiving so many searches that it surpassed Network Solutions …
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Domain Registrars Network Solutions and Register.com are being sued by two Internet entrepreneurs for infringing on a URL patent. The suit alleges that the Registrars are infringing on a patent they received on December 30, 2003 by selling URL’s and email addresses. The patent refers to the method that a …
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VeriSign’s subsidiary, Network Solutions, will soon profit from dropped names when the company’s new waiting list service goes live in October. The wait list allows customers to pay to for the rights to a domain name that will be expiring soon. ICANN plans for the wait list service to be …
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Seven Words, a LA company, filed a lawsuit against Network Solutions for their policy against registering domain names containing the “seven dirty words”. The company claims that the policy is government censorship, since NSI operates under the Commerce Department.…
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After VeriSign purchased Network Solutions, the company is now splitting the Registrar business off and rebranding. The new Network Solutions subsidiary will handle the domain registration, web, and email businesses. The Registry business will stay under VeriSign.…
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Network Solutions filed a brief in support of their position whereby all small domain owners from around the world would be forced to defend their domains in the courts of Virginia, the headquarters of Network Solutions. The move opposes the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in their recent case which seeks …
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Chinese Domain Name Corp. and Network Solutions have partnered to offer .com, .net, and .org domain registrations in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The agreement states that both companies will share the revenues and that Network Solutions will provide 1-year registrations to the first 500 customers of Chinese Domain Name …
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Gary Kremen claims he’s the rightful owner of the multi-million dollar domain, sex.com. He says that Stephen Cohen hijacked the domain in an identity spoof and tried suing both Cohen and Network Solutions for the faulty transfer. A Judge issued a free pass for Network Solutions (which Kremen vows to …
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While some report the number of domains hijacked in a Serbian ‘eTerrorist’ attack to be in the high 2000’s, Network Solutions says “No.” The company maintains that very few websites were affected, and that their servers were not hacked. The hijacking was an age-old email spoof job, which is completely …
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The site WhoAmI.com was hijacked from the rightful owner, Solid Oak Software, when someone from Serbia called Network Solutions pretending to be the account administrator and giving the whois data false information. Solid Oak is still waiting for Network Solutions to correct the error.…
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VeriSign announced today that it had bought out Network Solutions for $21 billion, and has become the new controller of the Domain Name System (DNS).…
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Some of the Webs most popular domain names were listed as ‘up for grabs’ for about an hour and a half on Friday. Names like yahoo.com and networksolutions.com were listed as not taken due to a glitch in Network Solution’s database. None of the names were, or even could have …
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Network Solutions ‘lost control’ of several domain names over the weekend through various spoof emails requesting changes to domain name data. Network Solutions claims that they offer security options to avoid such attacks for free, but that it is on the part of the registrant to keep their accounts at …
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Network Solutions accepted approximately 800 erroneous domain registrations that contained a hyphen at either the beginning or end of the domain name. The error occurred because the software used when registering names was not correctly filtering out the errors and the actual domain name system wouldn’t be able to handle …
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When Metricom’s Ricochet.net was hacked recently, ‘e-vandals’ didn’t bother with the servers, instead going after the DNS (Domain Name System) housed by Network Solutions. Hackers redirected Metricom’s web traffic from ricochet.com to pornographic sites and caused emails sent by users of their wireless modems to bounce. The website and email …
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Over the Christmas weekend, many Hotmail users would have been without service if not for Michael Chaney, who paid the registration renewal fee for passport.com, the main domain used by Hotmail to log in users. Chaney claimed that he had trouble getting his email and saw that passport.com had been …
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Network Solutions lost their monopoly on the domain registration business, but retained their duty to maintain the data system. The data system has gone down several times, causing registries to fail, since ICANN made it possible for registrars to compete with Network Solutions. Still, ICANN is happy with the overall …
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Thousands of new domain names are being registered with the intention of reselling the names after some registrars raised their character limit from 22 characters long to 67 characters long. Melbourne IT was one of the first to change their limit, giving them a competitive edge over Register.com and Network …
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Network Solutions inadvertently placed the domain name races.com back on the market, where it was quickly snatched up. The name was supposed to have been transferred to John McLanahan, who had paid thousands of dollars for the name. Network Solutions spokesperson, Cheryl Regan, says McLanahan “is not a customer of …
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NetNames had filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against FreeNetNames (an ISP) and had their website shut down by court order. However NetNames’ sudden lack of action, with no word from them in over three weeks, led the judge to believe they had abandoned their efforts, and FreeNetNames was allowed to …
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Network Solutions has finally agreed to and signed a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Network Solutions will collect $6 per year from its competitors for access to its database, a significant drop from the previous $35 per registration the company charged. The company will …
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Network Solutions drew some criticism today when the European Commissioner verified complaints against their closed-door meetings where they may have manipulated the contracts to keep consumers from using competing services.…
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