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Connection Between .NET Rebid and .COM Restructure?

by Bret Fausett at 08:52AM (PST) on November 1, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos | Digg This

So here's a question that's been on my mind lately: did ICANN negotiate the terms of the .NET RFP and the evaluation criteria with Verisign at the same time that it negotiated the settlement of the litigation and the wholesale revision of the .COM registry agreement?

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Re: Connection Between .NET Rebid and .COM Restructure?

by RTindal on Tue 01 Nov 2005 11:07 AM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

We asked ICANN this question several days ago. We have not received a response yet.

Richard Tindal
Neulevel Registry

Re: Connection Between .NET Rebid and .COM Restructure?

by Kieren on Thu 03 Nov 2005 08:34 AM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

I asked Paul Twomey if .net was part of the deal. I stuck his response in a Register story:

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Twomey rejects any suggestion that the extension of the dotnet contract was part of that deal. "There is absolutely no tie betwen this and dotnet - absolutely none. We kept the process completely isolated. And we made it very clear in any discussions with VeriSign that there was no way the two could be tied. The dotnet process was completely independent."
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My personal feeling is that the dotnet process was *so* suspicious that it was part of the deal.

Kieren

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