Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet 'Monopoly' You've Never Heard of
Briefly

"VeriSign is exploiting its monopoly power to charge millions of users excessive prices for registering a .com top-level domain. VeriSign hasn't changed or improved its services; it has simply raised prices because it holds a government-ensured monopoly."
"In an August blog post entitled 'Setting The Record Straight,' the company claimed that discourse around its management of .com had been 'distorted by factual inaccuracies, a misunderstanding of core technical concepts, and misinterpretations regarding pricing, competition, and market dynamics in the domain name industry.'"
Read at WIRED
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