Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from IHeart Radio.

Hey there, and welcome to Tech Stuff.

I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

I'm an executive producer with IHeart Podcasts and how the tech are you?

Recently, here in the United States, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Jerry Nadler have called for an investigation

into a company called Veracine. So why did they do that? Well, they say that Veracine has engaged

in predatory pricing, their words. And what is

Veracine's business? Well, among other things, Veracine is the one and only entity acting as a registry

for some top-level domain names. And we're going to break all that down so that it's easier to parse.

But let me preface this by saying,

this is complicated stuff, not just technically,

but from like an organizational perspective.

This is really complex.

And there's going to be a lot of talk about the responsibilities of a registry

in this episode and how things have kind of shifted around since the days of ARPANET into the

internet. So what I'm saying is that there's a lot more to this than what I'm going to cover.

In fact, I'm not even going to get into things like the DNS wars or the root registry

wars or any of that stuff because it would require a full series of episodes all by themselves.

So if what I'm talking about today is interesting to you and you want to learn more,

let me tell you, there is a wealth of information online. You can just do some searching around

for things like DNS wars, for example, and learn all about how people were trying to establish

standards and practices. You know, before you actually arrive at standards and practices, it can be a little bit

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