“Network Solutions is a company owned by Verisign that registers and administers top-level domain names for customers throughout the world. These companies engage in a variety of business practices that are, in our opinion, unethical, fraudulent, and calculated to be opaque and unfriendly to consumers. Despite many well-publicized, and in some cases, frankly nefarious, scandals involving these companies, millions of people continue to patronize them as the registrars for their domain names.”

“Here’s a rallying point: A domain, hoopla.com, has been stolen with NetSol’s complicity. A guy in Berlin faxed in a regstration for the domain (which was not set to expire until June) and NetSol handed it over to him. Instead of rectifying their error, they have told the owner to go to hell, negotiate to buy the domain from its new “owner,” or just get lost. Let’s put NetSol to death. We’re the Alpha Geeks of our social circles. When people ask us about registering domains, let’s be sure to tell them to register anywhere except NetSol, because they will sell your domain to someone else and do nothing about it.”

“…I recently visited ESPN’s website, which, oddly enough, no longer resides at the simple URL of http://www.espn.com. Yes, technically you can get to the ESPN.com online presence by typing those letters in, but if you watch your browser, you’re really redirected to http://msn.espn.go.com…”

“…I thought everyone might like to know what Network Solutions is doing to discourage domain transfers. In the good ol’ days, you could request a transfer from NSI to another registrar. The new registrar would make the request, the admin contact would approve the request, and the ‘losing registrar’ couldn’t block the request unless the domain owner owed money or the registration had expired… About 20 days ago, NSI changed the process…”

“We provide free dynamic/static DNS aliasing services and web redirection services to the net community. The Dynamic DNS service allows you to alias a dynamic IP address to a static hostname, allowing your computer to be more easily accessed from various locations on the Internet. We provide this service for free to the Internet community as a whole. The Static DNS is similar to our Dynamic DNS service, in that it allows a hostname to point to your IP. Unlike a Dynamic DNS host, a static host does not have the 30 day idle timeout, and updates take longer to propagate though the DNS system.”

“With Speednames, customers can digitally search, register and manage their domain names in more than 110 different top-level domains. The service runs in more than 10 European languages with double-byte Asian languages to be launched in the coming months. Apart from helping companies protect their domain names, individuals can also manage their online identity with Speednames multiple services.”

“On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge James Ware dismissed a theft claim — technically called a ‘conversion’ claim — against the convicted felon accused of hijacking sex.com, ruling that Web domains aren’t property, and therefore can’t be stolen.”

“Host Investigator is the leading web hosting directory and resource. Including customer reviews, discussion forum, testing tools and more… a resource for finding truthful reviews of hosting companies in order to find a proper host.”

“Clickey is the Internet’s first domain-name-only search engine. And it has features not found on any other search engine because Clickey was built from the ground up with a desire to get back to basics.”

“A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. Functionally, a PURL is a URL. However, instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service. The PURL resolution service associates the PURL with the actual URL and returns that URL to the client. The client can then complete the URL transaction in the normal fashion. In Web parlance, this is a standard HTTP redirect.”

“This form allows you to ask a Domain Name Server (DNS) to translate a domain name (e.g. vader.eeng.brad.ac.uk) into the numeric Internet Protocol address (143.53.37.102), or vice versa (i.e. numeric to alphabetic).”

“I’ve been looking around at a couple of NSI’s new competitors (register.com, for example), and the information on their pages about services and pricing for them is underwhelming at best. I also haven’t been able to find any good comparisons on the Web. So, in the experience of the /. community, what is the best registrar to go through for my new Web site?”

“This page allows you to search a database of over 10,000 Web hosting services compiled by TopHosts.com.”

“As of January 2000 there were 10,008,475 com, org, net and edu domains registered worldwide. There are another 3,344,305 country code TLDs (.uk or .de) domains registered as well. That’s about 2.2 Intenet domains per 1000 people worldwide. In the US, the figure is 25.2 domains per 1000 people. Combined (com, org, net, edu and country code TLDs) there are 13.35 million domains. They are distributed as follows…”

“THE LAWSUIT AGAINST etoy IS DROPPED! according to the etoy.LAWYERS chris truax in san diego and peter e. wild in zurich eToys Inc. gave up its naive fight against the famous international art group etoy this tuesday after a long and exhausting dispute about the terms and conditions of this settlement.”