Re: [alac] [Fwd: [ga] VeriSign offering Chinese IDN-TLDs?? Which root??]

["Siavash Shahshahani" <shahshah@xxxxxxxx>]

Maybe CNNIC licensed DBMS, not Verisign directly.
Siavash

> Please see the answer from Versign. So, as before, these extensions
> should be merely operable under dot CN. But it's still surprising. I
> asked the CNNIC directly about this issue today. They said they never
> licensed Versign to offer this service and they had not idea where
> Versign got the products from.
>
> Hong
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from "Kane, Pat" <pkane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -----
>     Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:50:51 -0400
>     From: "Kane, Pat" <pkane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "Kane, Pat" <pkane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  Subject: RE: [idn-pac] VeriSign Now Offering Chinese Character Extensions
>       To: hongxue@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Tina Dam <tina.dam@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Dear Hong,
>
> These naming extensions are actually CNNIC naming products.
>
> Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) is making these available to
> it's brand security customers as it does with many domain and keyword
> naming products.  DBMS is a business unit of VeriSign that offers a
> proven portfolio of digital brand security services, including domain
> name management, global brand expansion services and digital brand
> monitoring solutions.
>
> These extensions themselves are not VeriSign offerings.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pat
>
> Patrick Kane
> Director of Business Operations and Policy
> VeriSign Naming Services
> pkane@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> +1.703.948.3349
>
>
>
> On 10/26/06, Roberto Gaetano <roberto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Apparently, that's what they do.
>>
>> Tomorrow we start the Board retreat, I'm sure we will know more.
>>
>> Roberto Gaetano
>> ALAC
>> ICANN Board Liaison
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx] On
>> > Behalf Of Bret Fausett
>> > Sent: 25 October 2006 23:50
>> > To: ALAC
>> > Subject: Re: [alac] [Fwd: [ga] VeriSign offering Chinese
>> > IDN-TLDs?? Which root??]
>> >
>> > Note from a friend: "Regarding the VeriSign announcement --
>> > are you sure they're not just selling the CNNIC IDN names?"
>> >
>> > http://www.cnnic.net.cn/html/Dir/2005/10/11/3218.htm
>> >
>> >     -- Bret
>> >
>>
>>
>


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