IP: More on Web management co. raises feds' ire --[ but will they do

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>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
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>> 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