[wildcard-comments] Verisign DNS abuse

[Scott Cain<whois.sc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not their only abuse: how about their charging $35/yr for a domain 
which can be obtained from (almost) any other registrar for $15 down to $5?  
And this, why?  Because they advertise their own registrar service to all these 
free viewings from SiteFinder?  That is not Capitalism, it's abuse...it is 
price-fixing directed solely at the uninitiated & uninformed.  How many 
registrants do you suppose would pay $35 for a domain name if it were disclosed 
to them that they could obtain the same registration (with possibly better 
add-on services) for 35% to 15% of the price they were about to be billed from 
Verisign?  I wonder which registrar has the highest switch rate once their 
customers discover the folly of their initial registration (vs. which registrar 
has the most loyal registrants)?  Didn't anyone ever inform Verisign that the 
most expensive activity is new customer acquisition... and that the lifetime 
value of a customer is many times more than the initial sale?  Ver!
 isign, we don't trust you anymore.

I have signed and I agree with the petition at http://www.whois.sc/verisign-dns/

- Scott Cain