It's hard for most of us to imagine VeriSign failing, but for some of the other companies in the registry business, the possibility is real. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is finally taking steps to figure out what to do if a registry fails. - Users spend little time thinking about Internet registries like ICANN or VeriSign because they don't deal with them directly. Perhaps they should.
VeriSign and the other companies that operate the top-level domains on the Internet are critical infrastructure. At least some of them are. What if one ...
