Biden Should End Verisign .Com Domain Monopoly, Groups Say
- Trump administration lifted price caps in 2018 contract
- Tech company will raise price to $10.26 per site in September
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The Biden administration should force Verisign Inc. to competitively bid to maintain the registry of websites that end in .com after the company hiked prices 70% in the past decade, antitrust advocates said.
In a pair of letters to the Justice and Commerce Departments dated Thursday, a number of groups advocating aggressive antitrust enforcement urged the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to notify Verisign that it would open up competitive bidding for the .com domain once the company’s contract expires next year.