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Join now FREE! July 14, 1997, 12:15 p.m. PT
MENU A rival domain name registry to the
=46ront Door official Internet registrar, InterNIC, Latest Headlines
The Net redirected users from display on
Computing "www.internic.net" to its own site last desktop
Intranets weekend in what is being called a The Net
Business "protest." Netscape, Excite
CNET Radio do foreign news
Perspectives Netizens told CNET's NEWS.COM that they Spam slows
Newsmakers ended up at AlterNIC, or WorldNet mail
Rumor Mill "www.alternic.net," after typing in
InterNIC's URL. AlterNIC was set up by Domain deletion
NEWS OPTIONS the enhanced Domain Name Services to called forgery
One Week View offer alternate top-level domains, such CNNSI.com enters
Desktop News as ".ltd," ".sex," and ".med." online ring
News Alerts Ireland closes
Custom News "By redirecting the domain name Net speech summit
Advanced 'www.internic.net,' we are protesting
Search the recent InterNIC claim to ownership FTC addresses
Push of '.com,' '.org,' and '.net,' which children's
[Image] they were supposed to be running in the privacy
[Novell] public trust," AlterNIC CFO Eugene
Kashpureff stated on his site. Computing
RESOURCES BeOS hits the
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Help for this protest," the letter states. prices up to 50%
"We terminated the protest
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CNET.COM 14." workstations
BUILDER.COM Intranets
BROWSERS.COM The AlterNIC site also contained a link IBM, Gemplus team
GAMECENTER.COM that allowed visitors to access the on smart cards
SEARCH.COM actual InterNIC in the protest message. Oracle stocks
DOWNLOAD.COM e-commerce
SHAREWARE.COM InterNIC is the registrar of the most shelves
ACTIVEX.COM valuable domain names, such as ".com."
MEDIADOME It is administered in part by Network Business
Solutions under agreement with the Microsoft to hire
MARKETPLACE National Science Foundation, which ends 3,600 this year
CNET Store in March of next year. During its Cyrix shrinks
How to tenure, Network Solutions has collected losses, misses
advertise approximately $78 million in mark
registration fees. Iomega execs head
for Software AG
The protest is the latest move in the
heated debate over who will control the Novell CFO denies
Internet naming system, which has he is leaving
turned into a lucrative business as The state of
commercial entities fight to establish Apple's books
brand awareness by using the most Western Digital
coveted names. For example, the name profits jump
"business.com" was bought recently from Teledesic seeks
its registered owner for $150,000. capital from
telcos
Last month, the Commerce Department
asked for public comment on the future
of the domain name system. An ad hoc
committee formed in part by the
Internet Society also proposed a plan
last year for replacing Network
Solutions and reconfiguring how the
names are handed out. Kashpureff said
he is protesting Network Solutions'
claim in its recent Securities and
Exchange filing that it owned the
property rights to ".com" and the other
popular domains.
"If they think they own the entire
domain name space, I've got news for
them. Over the weekend, I possessed
their name," he told CNET's NEWS.COM.
No one at Network Solutions could be
immediately reached to comment on
whether the company will look into
legal ramifications for the rerouting
of its traffic by AlterNIC.
Kashpureff wouldn't say how he managed
to abduct InterNIC's domain name but
did say he did it to demonstrate the
system's vulnerability. "I'm not
releasing how I did it because it would
take out the name service on the Net.
The hack was a result of a years' worth
of work under a project called 'DNS
Storm.'"
Moreover, there is no telling how many
registrations InterNIC could have lost
due to the antic. But some Netizens who
were involuntarily transported to the
alternate site didn't seem to mind.
"They do have a good point in the fact
that those domain names are supposed to
be in the public trust. I don't agree
with the InterNIC monopoly either,"
said Jason Brunette, a Webmaster for
TCB Internet in Wisconsin, who was
rerouted to AlterNIC this weekend when
he tried to register a domain.
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