What value do you imagine Verisign provides? Verisign has nothing to do with .com's reputation. Most people have never heard of it. They didn't even run it until the peak of the .com bubble when everyone had already made their associations with .com.

Whoever said anyone ensures a .com is credible? I don’t think anyone said a .com guarantees credibility. I said, other tlds aren’t as credible, and everyone knows that.

Oh, please. Technology is deflationary. Significant, repeated, above inflation price rises aren't the fault of users: it's the US Government enabling monopoly corruption.