Verisign acquired Network Solutions, the administrators of .com. The name registry was initially government funded, but privatized and sold off in the early /

Verisign 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