Spirited Horse LLC is not a reseller or distributor of Network Solutions registrar. They are equals in the registration of domain names. Up until recently, Network Solutions acted as both registrar and registry. An agreement with the U.S. Dept of Commerce has required that Network Solutions break off the registry and sell it off within the next three years. It is a shortcut so the demographic information doesn't always need to be re-typed when registering domain names.
Handles are registrar specific.
Therefore the handles one uses with Spirited Horse LLC cannot be used with Network Solutions, since Spirited Horse LLC does not interface with Network Solutions, and vice versa. NSF and the U.S. Dept of Commerce hired Network Solutions to administer the InterNIC site. When NSI was divided between registrar and registry, they pointed internic.net to the NSI registrar. Name Server A name server is a computer database that enables the Internet to resolve domain names with IP addresses. This allows your web site to be accessed by Internet users.