Why, yes, I do think someone mentioned Verisign. Doyce of course mentioned Verisign, but even his mention of Verisign seems designed to point a reader (or Google) to a Verisign location which is not, in fact, Verisign, since it has some rather uncomplementary things to say about Verisign, which you probably won’t find on the Verisign site, but which is worth reading about Verisign anyway, especially if it takes Google searchers who are innocently looking for Verisign to go to this post about Verisign, which might serious make someone reconsider looking to Verisign to perform the sorts of domain name registry that Verisign claims it does better than anyone else, but which Verisign is unable to do in any sort of fashion that would be considered competent or diligent to anyone but Verisign.
Jerks.