Brian Cute, who no longer reports to Verisign: "Yesterday marked an important event for Network Solutions and, in a real sense, for the Registrar Constituency. Pivotal Private Equity, a private equity firm based in Phoenix, Arizona, announced the completion of its acquisition of the Network Solutions registrar business from VeriSign, Inc." This makes a lot of sense for everyone, though it's sort of ironic after all of the machinations in 2001 to allow Verisign to keep Netsol in the first place. I wonder whether the price now is any better than the price Verisign could have gotten back then. Certainly the names under management has continued to drop since 2001.

Scarlet Pruitt has the news story here.