Someone is in VRSN pocket This has been under-discussed in this thread. But looking to "government" (nee ICANN, nee Dept of Commerce) for help is not the answe

Someone is in VRSN pocket This has been under-discussed in this thread. But looking to "government" (nee ICANN, nee Dept of Commerce) for help is not the answer, rather it's more the problem. A while ago we had this headline about a no-bid contract awarded to Verisign. I don't know about recent developments, but a while ago this was an ongoing thing.[1] Appeals Court Reverses & Allows Suit Against Verisign To Go To Trial: This Is A BIG Deal You can bet there are people getting rich off of this. E.g.:[2] Under the current contract, which expires Friday, VeriSign was guaranteed four price increases of up to 7 percent each on domain name registrations There's chutzpah for you. Verisign was demanding more price increases to run infrastructure that has historically had crazy price deflation associated with it. [1] http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/05/appeals-court-reverses-allows-suit-against-verisign-to-go-to-trial/ http://www.thedomains.com/2009/06/05/appeals-court-reverses-... [2] http://www.nwherald.com/mobile/article.xml/articles/2012/11/30/r_kfsc3e5dt9mw8jzl8d3g/index.xml http://www.nwherald.com/mobile/article.xml/articles/2012/11/...