At Heise: .net Registry: And the winner is ... VeriSign!. Yes, exactly the company that made itself so popular with the wildcard A-record on .com and .net and that has repeatedly distinguished itself by not adhering to agreements and forging ahead before ICANN or other central bodies had even created a basis for it (for example, with international domains) and thereby repeatedly caused problems, exactly the company that is not interested in more democratic regulation of the Internet and is anyway only on a monopoly course, exactly that company receives the contract from ICANN. No surprise - the competitors were not American companies and how ICANN stands towards non-American initiatives (and possible greater involvement of Internet users) has been seen in the dismantling of the regionally elected representatives.