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[ga] VeriSign lobbying expenses

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  • Subject: [ga] VeriSign lobbying expenses
  • From: "Prophet Partners Inc." <Domains@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:37:17 -0400
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"VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) Inc., which manages online addresses, spent $570,000 in the first half of 2007 to lobby the federal government on Internet related issues, according to a disclosure form.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company lobbied on issues related to privacy, taxation, e-mails and Web addresses, which are also known as domain names, according to the form posted online Monday by the Senate's public records office."
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-18556726.htm

According to http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/opr_gifviewer.exe?/2007/E/000/087/000087322|3
In 2006, VeriSign spent $6,585,000 lobbing Congress and the NTIA regarding domain name addressing and ICANN. This represents roughly $0.10 of every .com and .net registration.

A complete list of VeriSign lobbying reports can be found at
http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=3&iREG=VERISIGN%20INC&iREGQUAL==

Sincerely,
Ted
Prophet Partners Inc.
http://www.ProphetPartners.com
http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com


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