From another angle, presumably they had some excellent engineering on their site to be able to handle the enormous up tick in server load following the change.

From another angle, presumably they had some excellent engineering on their site to be able to handle the enormous up tick in server load following the change. A note from Wikipedia[0] >According to the web traffic measurement company Alexa, in the year prior to the change verisign.com was around the 2,500th most popular website. In the weeks following the change, the site came into the top 20 most popular sites, and reached the top 10 in the aftermath of the change and surrounding controversy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder