Agreed. No one else is referred to by their first name in HN headlines. The Wired article refers to her by full name or title throughout the article. And at least among Wired and HN readers, I would expect them to know who Verisign is and what they do.
I thought the queen had come back to live to make this statement... Who I think would be one of the few people referred by just that name.
All I could make of it was Elizabeth, New Jersey--a fine place, I'm sure, but not one I often hear of on HN.
Unless you hangout and get beers with her on the weekend, calling her Elizabeth might be a bit informal
I thought "uh, isn't she dead and it's Charles now?"