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Value-Added Registration Services Aim to Break NSI.(competitors challenge Network Solutions...

By Ubois, Jeff
Publication: ENT
Date: Wednesday, January 6 1999

One of the Internet's strangest accidental empires, Network Solutions Inc. (NSI, www.networksolutions.com), is fighting with a growing number of competitors who are seeking to break its lock on domain name registrations. In addition to charges of monopoly, the challengers are coming after NSI by tempting customers with value-added registration services.

NSI generates much of its revenue by the grace of a government contract, recently renewed through September 2000, that appoints the company as the sole registry for .com, .net and .org domain names. The contract ensures

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