Moving to a monopoly
Verisign/NSI is bad!! First a former Verisign/NSI employee Michael Johnson filed a lawsuit against them alleging illegal practices in domain name disputes and allocations. And now they abruptly removed the DOMAIN-POLICY mailing list. They did it without any notice and removed all the archives too. Probably, this arrogance is linked to their virtual monopoly over the .com domain registry recently given to them by the US dept of commerce.