ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder

Tue Oct 25 13:36:33 UTC 2005

* william elan net:

> They get to continue to be .COM registry forever as new agreement
> would extend to 2012 and then automatically extended further without 
> formal process as it happened recently for .NET. They also are going
> to be able to increase registry fees for .COM by 7% per year which to
> put it in perspective can potentially be $2 increase 4 years from now.

So the deal makes indeed sense from a business perspective.  Thanks.

>> Two possible explanations:
>
> 2+2=5, right? :)

Oops. 8-)