we're only upset because Verisign makes money off of this.

I'm sure that is a factor too. Verisign have a contract to operate a shared registry, as a monopoly is unreasonable, but hijack it to make a different service that nobody else gets to bid for running. If such a service were a feasible use of this public resource there'd be an open process to bid for running it and some of the rewards would go to public services in return for that lease brandon