VeriSign Moves to Address an Internet Security Problem

VERISIGN MOVES TO ADDRESS AN INTERNET SECURITY PROBLEM
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: John Markoff]
To keep up with the growing strains put on the Internet by both legitimate users and online attackers, a Silicon Valley company is undertaking a $100 million expansion of a crucial part of the system that speeds Web users to their destinations. The company, VeriSign, is a leader in networking infrastructure and manages registration for the .com and .net Internet domains. It is among the stewards of an international system of computer servers running programs that translate domain names like google.com or wikipedia.org into numeric addresses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/technology/08net.html
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* VeriSign to spend over $100M on upgrade
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