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VeriSign To Control .com Domain Until 2012

Posted by Zonk on from the good-deal dept.

DIY News wrote to mention a Reuters article reporting that VeriSign will control the .com domain until 2012, according to an agreement with ICANN. From the article: "The agreement settles a long-running dispute between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, and the most powerful company under its jurisdiction. The settlement comes at a time when ICANN is under attack from China, Iran and other countries that want more direct control over the domain-name system that guides traffic around the Internet."

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  1. Completely, Utterly, Wrong. by ciroknight · · Score: 3, Informative

    Who the hell modded this up? Ebay bought a very, very small part of Verisign, the part that did payment processing. No big deal. Verisign still controlls the .com, .net root servers, and that's all this article is about. Period.

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  2. Re:The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 by grasshoppa · · Score: 3, Informative

    A mod of funny doesn't give the author any karma, but the negative mods still take away from karma. So the mods, having learned this, will mod someone insightful or interesting when they want to mod the post funny so the author doesn't get any karma hits.

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