] VeriSign claims to have invested $150m in two and a half
] years, but Vixie said the numbers are suspect: "They
] didn't spend $150m on the root servers, they put $150m
] into their gTLD servers... they made sure .com and .net
] were well-served, and the roots came along for the ride."

Paul Vixie responds in the press to the factual misrepresentations in last weeks abominable interview with the CEO of Verisign.

Trouble Grows at the Internet's Root - Computer Business Review