VeriSign fends off critics at ICANN confab (News.com)

VeriSign fends off critics at ICANN confab (News.com)

Concerning "making deals with browser vendors", I find it interesting that there's been so little notice of the fact that their direct competition on this issue is *Microsoft*: IE dumps to Microsoft's *own* service like this *on NXDOMAIN replies* (unless, like me, you configure it to turn that off) -- so Verisign was *directly* stealing eyeballs (to which they weren't entitled) from Microsoft -- who arguably wasn't entitled to them either, but didn't break the entire Internet to *get* them...

But hell, maybe it's just me.

(Say it with me now :-) So many things are just me...