Been meaning to post a reply for a while but a usual not enough hours in the day.
If this
article by the BBC is correct then steps are being taken to rap verisign's nuckles, though they deserve a good kicking in the nuts IMHO.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to have a go at taking over the Internet, even in part. It's a weird set up, probably unique in the world, in that it is owned by everyone at the same time as being owned by no-one, if you get my drift (or at least that how I explain it myself, maybe I should give off the anti-freeze for a while
). It would be an entrepreneur's dream come true to be able to 'own' it.
But, yeah, I wholly agree with you RTFM, how dare they basically!
I particularly detest the fact that you would be forced to buy the .com equivalent of any other domain extension type site you may have much to the profit of Verisign and associated speculators & domain squatters. (this I notice does not affect pprune as someone (Danny?) obviously had the foresight of purchasing pprune.com at some stage).
Rant over,
amofw