On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Tom Meunier wrote: > WTF is Verisign doing anyway? Deciding the Internet is their own > private toy?
Making a grab for cash: ------------ Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that VeriSign could create revenue of $1m per day for itself and partners if it could convert 0.3% of its error messages into paid clicks. That's based on estimates (from Afilias's Mohan) that VeriSign's .com and .net registry returns about 800 million error messages a day, and the average pay-per-click of $0.40 reported by paid search leader Overture Services Inc in the second quarter 2003. http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/d04afc52ae9da2ee80256d9c0018be8b ------------ "Right now, VeriSign's business is not a growing business, and anything that they do to add the slightest amount of growth is going to be positive," said Gene Munster, an analyst with U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030915/ap_on_hi_te/internet_typos_1 ------------ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
