VeriSign has emerged again as the .com master nine months after submitting its revised deal to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC).
Under the terms of the agreement, negotiated between ICANN and VeriSign, VeriSign will continue to manage the .com registry until 2012. It also allows VeriSign to increase domain prices, which was a provision that many in the domain registry business opposed.
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