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Network Solutions Class Action Suit

Shady business practices abound at Network Solutions. The domain registrar is being accused of ‘front-running’. What happens is when someone goes to the Network Solutions site and searches for the availability of a domain name Network Solutions immediately registered the name for itself. Then the company forces the user to pay outrageous fees to buy the name from them. One client in the suit said $34.99 when the same domain elsewhere would have been $9.99. For anyone who’s been burned by this practice this is welcome news. Continue reading

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ICANN now using IPV6

ICANN the company that handles all the domain names and ip addresses for the world have just turned on IPV6 in 6 of the 13 root servers. So the movement to version 6 has begun. Some large companies have been … Continue reading

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