Some ...characters... at NetworkSolutions
[http://www.networksolutions.com/]
took away internic.net, formerly www.internic.net.
See the CNN article [1]
The good news:
Network Solutions got so much flack from the government and Admins all
over the world, that they reposted their site [2].
[1] http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/24/net.management.ap/