Here's a question (with credit to Noel Bergman) that nobody seems to be asking: does Verisign's hijacking of unregistered domain names to pull traffic to its advertising-sponsored web pages lower the level of trust in the company? And if Verisign is less trustworthy, would you trust certificates from them (see the quote at the end of the linked article)? Should a company that can't be trusted be allowed to manage domain registration?