Message-ID: <20020904173705.45205.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:21:56 -0500 From: Kurt Kessler <kessler2k@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: VeriSign gets two-week warning
Two weeks? This should have happened years ago...
I think their spokesperson was referring to their
business competency when he said: "It's like holding a
few grains of sand in
your hand and calling it a beach"
--- zscoundrel <zscoundrel@kc.rr.com> wrote:
> Got this from the CBS marketwatch newsletter.
> Thought it might be of
> interest based on a thread from a couple of weeks
> ago.
>
>
>
> VeriSign gets two-week warning
>
> By Frank Barnako, CBS.MarketWatch.com
> Last Update: 9:40 AM ET Sep 4, 2002
>
> RESTON, Va. (CBS.MW) -- The exclusive registrar for
> the Internet's
> dot-com domain has been given two weeks to clean up
> its record keeping
> or face losing the right to sell Web site addresses.
>
> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> Numbers warned VeriSign
> (VRSN ) because it "blatantly ignored" warnings to
> fix inaccuracies in
> the Whois database, which contains information as to
> a domain's
> ownership. Brian O'Shaughnessy, a VeriSign
> spokesman, said the company
> will fix the problems immediately but contested
> whether ICANN's citation
> of 17 inaccuracies over 18 months shows a pattern of
> abuse, the
> Washington Post reported. "It's like holding a few
> grains of sand in
> your hand and calling it a beach," he said.
>
>
>
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