VeriSign gets .com until 2012 in ICANN settlement
VeriSign Inc will get its contract to run .com extended five years until 2012 and will be able to raise prices by 7 percent a year under a newly announced legal settlement with the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Ending more than 18 months of what ICANN president Paul Twomey called a "pretty full-on lawsuit", VeriSign and the organization it called its "regulator" have also agreed on rules of engagement for new services such as the controversial Site Finder.
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