Only a partial success: Verisign's whining (why is it described as an ex-monopolist in the c't article anyway? As a TLD operator for .com and .net they are an absolute monopolist; no one else could have pulled off that Sitefinder stunt) suggests they want to reintroduce the mess. Hopefully ICANN will stay tough. This silly claim that 40 million users would have used the Sitefinder is also preposterous - how could anyone have prevented it? You were forced to use it. Drawing the conclusion from that, that people would prefer that part over an error message, is pretty brazen. Verisign has proven they understood nothing and are just as much of a mess as Network Solutions was before them.
At heise online news there's the original article.