{"id":670,"date":"2006-09-26T03:52:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=670"},"modified":"2006-09-26T03:52:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T20:52:20","slug":"senators-question-com-price-increases-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/senators-question-com-price-increases-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators question .com price increases | CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Senators+criticize+.com+price+increases\/2100-7345_3-6117771.html?tag=alert\">Senators question .com price increases | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A long-running dispute over the cost of domain names and VeriSign&#8217;s lucrative .com monopoly returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, with several U.S. senators questioning the current arrangement as uncompetitive.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Gordon Smith, an Oregon Republican, asked why VeriSign should have what critics have called a guaranteed perpetual income stream from .com domain registrations. The company currently receives $6 per domain, or about $323.4 million a year, from .com fees alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators question .com price increases | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A long-running dispute over the cost of domain names and VeriSign&#8217;s lucrative .com monopoly returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, with several U.S. senators questioning the current arrangement as uncompetitive. Sen. Gordon Smith, an Oregon Republican, asked why VeriSign should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}