Article: A s-l-o-w touch for domain names.(Network Solutions' Domain Name System databases slow down as speculators query)(Company Business and Marketing)

Name speculators causing problems for other users, company says.

Speculators on the prowl for potentially lucrative domain names are choking the domain registration system.

Over the past week, users seeking to register domain names with Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) have complained of increasingly lengthy delays.

The company, which registered more than 1.9 million Web addresses last year, acknowledges response time has increased from a couple of days to a week.

The problem is speculators using bots and other methods to repeatedly query its Domain Name System databases for unused domains and domains whose registrations are about to ...

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