Verisign is trading this afternoon at $6.78, down from a high of about $240 in early 2000: http://investor.cnet.com/investor/quotes/quote-detail/0-9970-1042-0-VRSN.html?tag=srch -Declan --- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 14:51:03 -0400 From: Robert MacMillan <robert.macmillanat_private> Subject: icann and verisign To: declanat_private Hey Declan - Here's something Dave did for us this afternoon at post.com. Feel free to post to the list if you desire. Robert http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33395-2002Sep3.html By David McGuire washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Tuesday, September 3, 2002; 2:14 PM VeriSign Inc. could lose its right to sell "dot-com" domain names if it fails to address accusations that it violated its contract with global Internet addressing authorities. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the Internet's global addressing system, accused the largest dot-com registrar of failing to comply its accreditation agreements, citing 17 separate violations over the past 18 months. ICANN officials contend that VeriSign ignored its contractual responsibility to maintain an accurate, searchable database of its customers. All accredited Internet registrars are required to maintain publicly available "Whois" databases, which often provide the only clues to the identities of Web site operators. [...] © 2002 TechNews.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q\clan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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