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7 unusual facts about Network Solutions


Andreas Troeger

In 1996-1998 he programmed and co-designed the Internet political art project namespace, which was designed to unstrain the Internet from special interest's control and expanded the artificial limitation of TLDs imposed on the Internet users by Network Solutions and IANA.

David H. Holtzman

As Chief Technology Officer of Network Solutions and the manager of the Internet's master root server, Holtzman oversaw the growth of the commercial Internet from five hundred thousand to over twenty million domain names.

DotComGuy

The project had a large number of sponsors including United Parcel Service, 3Com, Network Solutions, Piper Jaffray, Travelocity and Peapod.

Network Solutions

During January, 2006, Network Solutions acquired e-commerce solutions company MonsterCommerce co-founded by Stephanie Leffler and Ryan Noble in Belleville, Illinois.

A protracted and expensive lawsuit resulted as Gary Kremen, the legitimate owner at the time, worked to regain control.

In March 2008, "Fitnathemovie.com", a website that Dutch politician Geert Wilders had reserved at Network Solutions, was taken offline.

Rockbridge Associates

In 2009, Rockbridge worked with Network Solutions and the University of Maryland, College Park to release the Small Business Success Index, which was featured on Fox News.


CentralNic

These subdomains have been relatively popular and sold across a wide range of domain registrars globally, including Network Solutions, eNom, Webfusion, GMO, Gandi, Key Systems, Directi, InternetX, and many others.


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