[IP] VeriSign announces sale of Network Solutions
Delivered-To: dfarber+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:48:26 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: VeriSign announces sale of Network Solutions
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Dave,
VeriSign has announced the sale of Network Solutions "to a new entity formed
by Pivotal Private Equity." Note that as far as I know, this affects the
competitive "registrar" side, not the monopoly "registry" side, so VeriSign
would continue to control the .com and .net roots. Great non-substantive
spam-like subject line on their message too:
Subject: Announcement
I'd send you the complete message for IP, but they copyrighted it.
More on VeriSign upcoming.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@xxxxxxxx or lauren@xxxxxxxxxx or lauren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
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