[67989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Thu Feb 26 20:31:21 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:29:50 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0402261556370.17201-100000@twomix.devolution.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Scott Call wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Roman Volf wrote:
>
>
>>When are they up for renewal exactly?
>
>
> November 10, 2007, according to
> http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/verisign/registry-agmt-com-25may01.htm
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> -S
>
I think as far as Verisign is concerned, they might not be an ongoing
concern in 2007, so why worry? They need to do something to get their
revenues up or risk the wrath of wallstreet:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040129/tech_verisign_earns_4.html
At $6/year per domain registered, VGRS makes the lion share of money in
the domain registry business for .com and .net. Yet, they are losing
$20MM per last quarter (or more, they lost over 200MM in 2003) And only
have about $300MM in cash . And their revenues are falling.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
