CNET News.com: “VeriSign has historically been unhappy with its role as a top-level domain administrator. VeriSign takes the position that the company can and should be able to cash in on the domain name system. VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos has said that "DNS response is an obligation we took on when we inherited (the .com administration contract). But it would be commercially unreasonable for anyone to suggest that we shouldn't be allowed to build incremental services on top of that .” This puts VeriSign directly at odds with the community it was designated to serve”

Its not often that I get to quote myself quoting Stratton