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How did Verisign get the .com TLD monopoly in the first place? I was a wee lad when this all started and don't remember the history. Can someone drop a good li
by imjustsaying 12y ago
How did Verisign get the .com TLD monopoly in the first place? I was a wee lad when this all started and don't remember the history.
Can someone drop a good link describing why there wasn't a more distributed approach to the .com TLD (and still isn't for new TLDs?)
- zhte415 12y agoVerisign acquired Network Solutions, the administrators of .com. The name registry was initially government funded, but privatized and sold off in the early / mid 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions http://mediafilter.org/caq/internic http://mediafilter.org/caq/internic