Thursday, April 05, 2007

DOUCHEBAG OF THE DAY: VERISIGN

Verisign is Today's "Douchebag of the Day". They are the "master-keeper" of Internet addresses ending in ".com" and ".net". They are now raising the price to register those names. The annual levy for ".com" will increase 7 percent to $6.42, and the ".net" fee will go up 10 percent to $3.85. The per-name fees are what VeriSign Inc. collects from companies that sell domain names on its behalf, and such charges are generally incorporated in the prices companies, groups and individuals pay to register names. With about 62 million ".com" names and 9.1 million ".net" names in use, VeriSign stands to ultimately make $29 million a year from the increase, which will take effect Oct. 15.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

JIMSMASH!!!!!!!