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NSI probe expands as legal issues grow

Network Solutions faces more intensive scrutiny regarding its business strategies and why the company still has an advantage over its competitors in the market.

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Network Solutions faces more intensive scrutiny regarding its business strategies and why the company still has an advantage over its competitors in the market.

"NSI has taken all the liability that has previously existed for the registry and passed it back to the registrars."

- Ken Stubbs, CORE chairman

 
DOJ expands NSI antitrust probe
update The Justice Department is expanding a two-year antitrust investigation of the dominant registrar to focus on the company's new business strategies. See Don Telage Newsmaker

NSI is still sole registrar
Nine days after the trial phase began to open up domain name registration, Network Solutions remains the only registrar of Net addresses carrying the ".com" ending.

"Dirty" domains turned over to court
Network Solutions agrees to put more than a dozen Internet addresses with vulgar names in the control of a federal court pending a motion to transfer the case to New Hampshire.

Domain restrictions target cybersquatters
update "Cybersquatters," or speculators who register scores of domain names in hopes of reselling them to top bidders, could face tough restrictions if a new international policy proposal is widely adopted.