Network Solutions is cybersquatting magic.com and mtg.com?!

[JEDI]

WHY waste a great sitename?!

Domain Name: MAGIC.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: AUTH51.NS.UU.NET
Name Server: AUTH03.NS.UU.NET
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 03-aug-2002
Creation Date: 03-aug-1989
Expiration Date: 02-aug-2006

edit: and mtg.com

Domain Name: MTG.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: DNS1.FUSIONCUBED.COM
Name Server: DNS0.FUSIONCUBED.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 06-jan-2003
Creation Date: 02-sep-1996
Expiration Date: 01-sep-2009

 

[CrazyPerson]

Originally posted by: JEDI
WHY waste a great sitename?!

Domain Name: MAGIC.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: AUTH51.NS.UU.NET
Name Server: AUTH03.NS.UU.NET
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 03-aug-2002
Creation Date: 03-aug-1989
Expiration Date: 02-aug-2006

 

[WinkOsmosis]

mtg?

 

[EyeMWing]

Netsol and Verisign are evil entities. They're essentially cybersquatting EVERY unregistered .com and .net at this time.

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Netsol and Verisign are evil entities. They're essentially cybersquatting EVERY unregistered .com and .net at this time.

Yep, they suck

btw, MTG and magic refer to Magic the Gathering.

 

[shabby]

Copperfield will sue them in no time.

 

[fatbaby]

I remember back in 1997 or so, some guy sold bank.com and a few other very common noun domains for several million. And he got those domains for free too! How do you get domains for free? And how does network solutions own nearly all the domains?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: fatbaby
I remember back in 1997 or so, some guy sold bank.com and a few other very common noun domains for several million. And he got those domains for free too! How do you get domains for free? And how does network solutions own nearly all the domains?

A week or so ago, Verisign inserted a *.net and *.com registration into their DNS server that points every unregistered .com and .net to a search page that they sell advertising on. It didn't propagate to the entire Internet, however, because it pissed the hell off of a ton of admins. So not everyone can get to it by typing somthing dumb like gjkhfhdj.com - but a lot of people sure as hell can.