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From: kilian.cavalotti at crans.org (Kilian CAVALOTTI)
Subject: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly,  BIND releases new

Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> Just don't *buy* the domain from Verisign... unless of course you
> *like* their new Site Finder "service" and want to tell them so by
> giving them some of your with your dollars.

Whatever registrar you buy your [.com|.net|.org] domain at, you give
money to VeriSign, while they are the only worldwide entity authorized
to sell such domains. Every registrar in the world buy indeed the
domains it sells to VeriSign.

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Kilian CAVALOTTI | GPGKeyId: 0xD657340C
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The cord jumped over and hit the power switch.