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Is there any reason Verisign wouldn't jack up prices by the max allowed in their contract?

Absolutely none.

But given their censorship of domains, wild card fiasco, I say ICANN should pull them as a registrar, remember, Network Solutions is Verislime, oops, sorry, Verisign.

Verisign Sucks

My guess is that the Simpsons episode hurt the Newton more than the actual quality of the handwriting recognition ever did :-)

It was Jabberwocky that really stayed with me.

More of a subjective thing, I take it.

he? Who said that phatlipmojo was a she? Not all librarians are women, you know.

Wouldn't the use of "he" be just as presumptuous? The English language has flaws, and this is one of them. Since English has no third-person-singular gender-unspecific pronouns, speakers and writers of the english language have only six choices when referring to somebody whose gender isn't known:

• Use "he/she". This can get very awkward (especially when spoken). E.g.: "Someone across the street bought a newspaper, and then he/she put it over his/her head so that he/she wouldn't get his/her hair wet."
• Use "they". This is technically wrong because it's a plural pronoun, so in can lead to ambiguity and confusion. However, it's becoming increasingly common. E.g.: "Someone across the street bought a newspaper, and then they put it over their head so that they wouldn't get their hair wet."
• Use new gender-unspecific pronouns and hope that they'll be understood and catch on. E.g.: "Someone across the street bought a newspaper, and then ey put it over eir head so that ey wouldn't get eir hair wet.". See http://www.aetherlumina.com/gnp/ for more information on such pronouns.
• Always assume male. This was common and correct practice in bygone days, but I don't think it's reasonable nowadays.
• Guess at a gender. This is a variation of the previous point, and is not only more fair, but more likely to be correct. In this case, the person in question is a librarian, and there are more female librarians than male librarians, so why not initially guess "she" rather than "he"? It's more likely to be correct.
• Avoid the use of pronouns altogether. I think that this option is entirely unreasonable. E.g.: "Someone across the street bought a newspaper, and then that person put it over that person's head so that that person wouldn't get that person's hair wet."

You mean VeriSign.

Verisign Horror Stories

The Verisign Sucks Page.

The word "they" actually is used by some people as a gender neutral singular third person pronoun, in addition to being used as the plural third person pronoun. You can find historical justification for this at http://www.paganpaths.org/~lebleu/notes/linguistic . tml For more information on gender neutral pronouns, read the GNP FAQ

More reasons not to use NSI.