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I think verisign can fend off challenges on this
and other grounds, but it doing so it then points out that it is not a public
service company, but a private corporation. I liken their situation to the NYSE
with the Dick Grasso situation, he could either remain in power, or take the
money.....he took the money. but you cant have both.
Verisign can say that they are merely operating as
a private company....but it was as the defacto internet address owner that they
got their monopoly power.. this could be a case where they get to keep the
money, at the expense of losing their job a private custodian of the addressing
system... as to 2007, most of the executives options will be cashed in by then.
I think their risk is challenge to the root before then... with competitors
using their same strategy, if its not illegal, its legal.
The network solutions part of verisign has been in
essence leaderless since it was abandoned by top management in 1999, then run
without a CEO, then sold to verisign, who always viewed it as a division that
needed to kick cash flow to the rest of the company.
more than stopping sitefinder, I am looking for
some icann backbone to just not let them have it both ways on WLS and
sitefinder.
in their case for WLS they use stability of the
internet and leverage icann's power to prohibit free market solutions like
namewinner, and other expiring names services. they take a situation that
was not regulated and put regulation, with them at the helm.
but in the case of Sitefinder, they want a hands
off approach to let their free market solution work.
and then act like the spammers for .eu that i keep
getting in the mail, and take pre-registrations for wls.
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