Verisign owning .com seems like bullshit to me. TLDs are a public good, which should be operated by independent non-profits or contracted to a company to operate, using strict rules about pricing and such.

[–] Scoopta 1 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose? Most TLDs are owned by companies. They can always compete with each other on prices so I'm not sure I agree. Although given Verisign owns 2 of the 3 public use legacy domains with .org owned by a non-profit due to its non-profit nature I can see your point. Especially since IPs are managed by non-profits, why not TLDs too? Then again with the gTLD program any sufficiently large company can own their own TLD now so it probably doesn't make sense given modern usage.