DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab on Nostr: Though far from a household name, VeriSign takes in about $1.5 billion in revenue ...

Though far from a household name, VeriSign takes in about $1.5 billion in revenue each year for servicing its particular section of the Internet’s inscrutable plumbing.

it's not inscrutable goddammit. it is absolutely possible to scrute the internet's plumbing.

(via https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-crackdown-on-internet-monopoly-youve-never-heard-of/ and btw, I've totally heard of verisign.)