[62349] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN - Formal Complaint re Verisign
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Sep 17 17:53:21 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:50:18 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Jerry Eyers <jeyers@rebma.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F68CAA9.000018.00868@minimite>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jerry Eyers wrote:
>
>One thing I haven't seen mentioned in all this is the incredible business
>monopolizing effect this move will have on the TLD's in question. It
>dramatically shifts the domain playing field in Verisign's favor by pointing
>millions of potential customers to their site(s) specifically, giving them
>millions of dollars in free advertising eye-time over any of the competition
>
>
>
If I remember correctly, Verisign person stated in an interview that
they estimate that
it will be worth up to $100M annually.
Pete
