[wildcard-comments] VeriSign's Unethical Business Practices

["randy" <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am writing to add my voice of concern to the growing tide of distrust aimed 
at 
VeriSign.  The company's recent hijacking of Internet traffic for personal 
profit is just the 
latest and most blatant example of a company who's business practices were 
already 
abhorrent.

As the owner of a web hosting and domain registry company, I cannot tell you 
the 
number of times that a new client moving to our service who was unfortunate 
enough 
to have originally registered their domain name with VeriSign, or it's partner 
company 
Network Solutions, has wound up with their domain name either failing (or 
refusing) to 
be transferred by VeriSign or being required to pay exorbitant fees to retain 
their name 
and transfer it out of VeriSign's registry.

On more than one occasion, it has taken the filing of legal action against 
VeriSign for 
them to act upon the transfer requests or drop fees for domains that are 
legally already 
owned by the client.  We have never had to resort to this with any other 
registrar.

To think that we have entrusted the management of the Internet's largest TLD's 
to this 
company should give us all pause for thought and reason for concern.

Hoping for change,

Randy.