Is Network Solutions Buying Up US Domain Registrars? ANONS DIGG
Internic.net/origin.html
Although there are many US domain registrars, quite a few aren't really independent but are part of Network Solutions. Of the first 20 listed, if you click on the icon, 12 of them take you to Network Solutions.
'60% with different names are actually Network Solutions under a different name!
YES! #1 Host Australia, LLC
YES! #1 Host Canada, LLC
YES! #1 Host China, LLC
YES! #1 Host Germany, LLC
YES! #1 Host Japan, LLC
YES! #1 Host Korea, LLC
NO $$$ Private Label Internet Service Kiosk, Inc. (dba "PLISK.com") (1) NO
NO 007Names, Inc.
NO 23 DomainRenewals, LLC
NO 24x7domains, LLC
YES Abbey Road Domains LLC
NO AccentDomains LLC
YES Aconcagua Domains LLC
NO Acquired Names LLC
YES Active Market Domains LLC
YES Advalorum Domains
NO Address Creation Domains LLC
YES ADomainofYourOwn.com LLC
YES AdriaticDomains LLC
NO Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. (AIT)
(Skipped the ones with insecure connections)
Looking at multiple-listing companies, Network Solutions was well-represented there too:
US Companies with 10 or more multiple listings
NO DropCatch companies (1090) >>NameBright.com [WHO IS NameBright??]
NO Dynadot companies (19) >>Dynadot
NO Name.com companies (20) >>>Name.com
YES NamePal.com companies >>Network Solutions (29)
YES Snapnames companies >Network Solutions (98)
127/1256=10.1% Network Solutions
But dropping the DropCatch outlier, 127/166 = 76.5% are Network Solutions
Anyone want to check out the rest?
A tedious but useful 2-hour project. Just scroll to United States listings and click of the broken image icon to see who's really behind the name–then tally the US results.