VeriSign gets two-week warning

[zscoundrel]

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.