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Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:29:50 -0500
Scott Call wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Roman Volf wrote:When are they up for renewal exactly?November 10, 2007, according to http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/verisign/registry-agmt-com-25may01.htm -S
I think as far as Verisign is concerned, they might not be an ongoing concern in 2007, so why worry? They need to do something to get their revenues up or risk the wrath of wallstreet: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040129/tech_verisign_earns_4.html
At $6/year per domain registered, VGRS makes the lion share of money in the domain registry business for .com and .net. Yet, they are losing $20MM per last quarter (or more, they lost over 200MM in 2003) And only have about $300MM in cash . And their revenues are falling.
Deepak Jain AiNET
Current thread:
- Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder, (continued)
- Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder Curtis Maurand (Feb 10)
- Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder william<at>elan.net (Feb 10)
- Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder Curtis Maurand (Feb 11)
- Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Deepak Jain (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Jay Hennigan (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) william(at)elan.net (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Roman Volf (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Scott Call (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) John Kinsella (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) william(at)elan.net (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Deepak Jain (Feb 26)
- Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder william<at>elan.net (Feb 10)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) william(at)elan.net (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Paul Vixie (Feb 26)
- Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder Curtis Maurand (Feb 10)