[ga] Verisign Retains .com Control Until 2012

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  DOC mostly caves.

See: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061204-8345.html

Several folks wrote to note that the U.S. Department of Commerce, in 
a controversial deal, has xtended Verisign's control of the .com domain.
Verisign got the right to raise prices in four of the six years of the
contract, by up to 7% each time. From the article: "Verisign has control
of .com and .net locked up for the next several years, but there will
still be a modicum of oversight. [Commerce] retains final approval over
any price hikes, and has said that any subsequent renewal of the
contract will occur 'only if it concludes that the approval will serve 
the public interest in the continued security and stability of the 
Internet domain name system... and the provision of registry services 
at reasonable prices, terms and conditions.'"

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obediance of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Registered Email addr with the USPS
Contact Number: 214-244-4827