VeriSign gets two-week warning

[Kurt Kessler]

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 at 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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