April 09, 2001
Critics Say VeriSign Still Has Advantage
Critics Say VeriSign Still Has Advantage
eriSign Inc., the designated keeper of the database that stores the Internet's .com addresses, won a big victory last week from Icann, the international organization that oversees the Internet's entire address system. But the deal, which extends VeriSign's control of the .com database at least through 2007, is raising concerns among the company's competitors and critics, who say VeriSign may have an unfair advantage in the increasingly lucrative market for reselling Internet addresses.
Posted by rshah at April 9, 2001 12:00 PM