I could not have said it better- April 25, 2007 Interview with Karl Auerbach Karl, what do you think of the ICANN - Verisign contract, which essentially provides for default renewal of the .com contract with Verisign Do you think ICANN could have resolved its litigation with Verisign in a more favorable fashion As for Verisign - wow, ICANN and NTIA have been like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny to Verisign. It was utterly outrageous how ICANN let its outside attorney give all of those gifts to Verisign in at least three distinct...http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/gtld/2007/04/25.html#a639 Veri$ign does the unexpected, not!- April 8, 2007 So last week InternetNZ announced a drop in domain name fees to $1.50 per month ($18 per annum). This was a 14% drop. Now you have to realise that .nz has less than 275,000 names (actually about 270,000). So VeriSign manages about 65 million names under .com and .net. Of course due to the efficiencies they are increasing the price 7% to $6.42 (USD). So lets do the math, 65 million names up 7%. 0.27 million names down 14%. PS When I mean efficiencies I mean that of creating contracts with...http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/gtld/2007/04/08.html#a638 |