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From:  Judy Gressel
        jgressel@enteract.com

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: From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
: To: ip-sub-1@admin.listbox.com
: Subject: IP: More on  Web management co. raises feds' ire --[ but will theydo
: Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 6:07 PM
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: >From: "Henry E. Schaffer" <hes@ias.ga.unc.edu>
: >Subject: Re: IP: Web management co. raises feds' ire --[ but will they do
: >To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
: >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 99 17:17:35 EST
: >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
: >
: >> WASHINGTON (AP) - The government-selected company that assigns most of
: >> the world's Internet addresses made a surprise move to steer customers
: >> of an important Web directory to its private commercial site, ...
: >
: >  I went to http://www/internic.net/ to check this out - and was
: >automatically shunted to http://www.networksolutions.com/ and found some
: >interesting things there:
: >
: > - They are selling the idea of registering the same domain name on the
: >three TLD's, "And with .com, .net and .org, you can triple your presence
: >for less than the cost of a cup of coffee I only 51 cents a day to
: >reserve your address with all 3 domains."
: >
: > - They are pushing the idea of registering lots of domain names for the
: >same location, "Reserve as many .com, .net and .org Web Addresses as you
: >need to cover variations of your company name, product lines or brands ...
: >and have them all take visitors to the one Web site of your choice."
: >
: > - Perhaps there are links to such generic information as the RFCs and
: >templates - but I couldn't find them either by poking around or using
: >their search.
: >
: > - trying http://rs.internic.net/ to get to the RFCs, etc. doesnt' work,
: >it also is redirected to the networksolutions commercial site.  This
: >stinks, as I've been using this as my source for RFCs.  I can also get
: >them at http://info.internet.isi.edu/1/in-notes  but I'm not sure where
: >the templates are.
: >
: >--henry schaffer
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