RE: [ga] Verisign stock price falls off a cliff

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

Now this type of conversation is very real and excellent.

This is how we truly influence people and make bitter enemies (a good thing 
when there are bad people out there)

I will support any such endeavor and believe it to be a good direction.

Eric

> Hi,
> 	Sorry I've not been active for quite a while.  Been busy.
> 
> 	With 1000 members and each member acquire a 10 unit stake, it will
> 	come to
> just 90 lots.  A grain of sand in the total # of common shares floating
> in the market.
> 
> 	However, I think that this is a very interesting idea: if
> 	icannatlarge.com
> is able to acquire enough stake in some company to exert influence over
> it. However, one will argue that verisign does not control icann.  It
> will only work if icann@large has a huge member-base.  Alternatively,
> someone/party is willing to "pledge" their votes (proxy) to
> icann@large.  On the reverse, since the icann@large.com needs more
> "say"/interest revenue from the undertaking, it might indirectly
> suggests it's members to do business with it.
> 
> 	I can also see a lot of down-side, like clash of interest.  However,
> 	it is
>still an interesting idea, something worth building on?  Care to add
>value (+ve or -ve) to this?  cheers.
> 
> 
> regards,
> - Joseph LEE Fook Heng
> =========================
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Joop
> Teernstra
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: George Kirikos
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] Verisign stock price falls off a cliff
> 
> 
> At 07:14 26/04/02 -0700, George Kirikos wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>As I type this, Verisign (stock symbol: VRSN on Nasdaq) is down 37%.
>>See:
> 
> went to -45%.
> 
> This seems to disprove Sotiris' theory.
> ICANN and VRSN's fortunes are moving in tandem.
> 
> At 9.50 a share  atlarge members can now  afford to have a say in
> Domain policy via the VRSN general meeting.
> It would be win-win for both.
> 
> 
> --Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
>    interim webmaster
> www.icannatlarge.com
> Sign up and spread the word.
> 
> 
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