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Verisign probed by US Dept of Justice over $135m .web auction

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The US Department of Justice is digging into the highly unusual auction of internet extension .web last year, the company that purchased it has admitted.

Speaking on Verisign's quarterly earnings conference call on Thursday, CEO Jim Bidzos told investors that on January 18 the registry had received a civil investigative demand (CID) from the antitrust division of the DoJ "requesting certain information relating to Verisign's potential operation of the .web gTLD."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/10/doj_investigating_auction_of_dot_web/
 
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