End of the line for Ireland's dotcom star

Anton Stiglic astiglic at okiok.com
Wed Sep 24 13:15:22 EDT 2003


> Why is it that none of those 100-odd companies with keys in the browsers
> are doing anything with them?  Verisign has such a central role in
> the infrastructure, but any one of those other companies could compete.
> Why isn't anyone undercutting Verisign's prices?  Look what happened with
> Thawte when it adopted this strategy: Mark Shuttleworth got to visit Mir!

And Thawte got bought by Verisign, so no more competition...
Interestingly, last time I checked, it was cheaper to buy from Thawte than 
it was from Verisign directly.

--Anton

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