ICANN - Formal Complaint re Verisign

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Wed Sep 17 21:50:18 UTC 2003


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
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If I remember correctly, Verisign person stated in an interview that 
they estimate that
it will be worth up to $100M annually.

Pete





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