Why “Verisign” is being discussed
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Eek! You've summoned Tom Ptacek to tell you why it's obviously better (and simpler) to maintain a second, parallel system that trusts dozens of parties to sign for any name they…
by Hizonner · Oct 20, 2026
There's another wrinkle I didn't know about .name until someone else brought it up here. When you registered first.last.name you also got an e-mail forwarder for [email protected]…
by kmeisthax · Oct 19, 2026
I'm curious how this will go in practice. Verisign's monopoly over the .com domain is granted by an agreement between Verisign and the US National Telecommunications and Informa…
by ndiddy · Oct 19, 2026
>> Verisign’s financial filings indicate it costs Verisign approximately $3 per domain to operate .com domains > to maintain a few hundred bytes in a database small enough to be…
by 10111001 · Oct 19, 2026
No results yet, just allegations. I don't think Verisign is above doing these kinds of financial crimes, but until the lawsuit has been won, nothing is proven. Plus, the lawsuit…
by jeroenhd · Oct 19, 2026
I really hope VeriSign will lose this battle, it will serve as a lesson to this awful company. VerSign is vampirizing the internet. They hold a very important power on the whole…
by p4bl0 · Oct 19, 2026
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Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, .web and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs and .edu sponsored top-level domains. Read more on Wikipedia