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Verisign Ordered to Stop Deceptive Renewal Notices

Posted by timothy on from the getting-off-way-too-easy dept.

Ummagumma writes: "CNN is running a story on how the courts have ordered Verisign to stop their deceptive 'renewal notices' to other registrars' customers. I've gotten a couple of these, and was smart enough to figure out what's going on, but this is a dirty practice, of borderline legality. Let's hope they get smacked down hard for this one..."

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  1. A way to kill verisign by acroyear · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Verisign is, by offering the 9-year plan, making similar mistakes to IBM when they sold instead of leased their mainframe hardware.

    So if everybody (who is a Verisign customer), were to go ahead and buy for 9 years, Verisign would actually see a good profit this year, then work that profit direction into future plans' budgets, only to have them fail utterly because nobody would be buying anything from them the next 3-8 years...

    Stock prices would drop. Execs would be canned. Heads would roll...

    "My God, it would be beautiful..."

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  2. Re:Business Ethics (or lack therof) by jeffy124 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I couldnt agree more. I know at my school (Drexel), business students are not required an ethics course, but engineering students are (req'd for accredidation), as well as other majors (accredidation again).

    As a side note, the original judge in the MS anti-trust case has said he feels Microsoft would not be where they are today (a monopoly found guilty of anti-trust) had Bill Gates finished college. He apparently never took an ethics course required by Harvard.

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