On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:55:28 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer
wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" writes:

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

"Steve W." writes:

I don't get the "for technical reasons we have to change the servers
part" It would seem that new servers wouldn't require a full name
change, unless there is some legalese behind it??

There has got to be another story. No idea what it is, but there are no
"technical" reasons why the change would be necessary.


It is, if they want to drop the registration for their old domain
name.

That wouldn't be a technical reason. Maybe they didn't own the name
after all (I've heard that's happened many times to people who've
registered a domain and found out when they wanted to move that the
registrar owned it, not them) -- but that still wouldn't be a technical
reason.

Perhaps someone owns Motzarella.com and is waving large sums of cash
at them for Motzarella.org to lock up all the names? Or someone
/else/ wants the name to set up their own cheesy sales channel?

Follow The Money - If the dollars offered are worth the hassle, you
move to a new name and sell the old one.

And no, I'm not going to go poking around at unusual names and
looking for hidden malware and viruses. You go right ahead...

-- Bruce --