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When Symantec bought Verisign it was making over $400million in net profits off of over $1.1 billion in revenue.

Symantec basically killed their golden goose are are now selling it off to another company at a huge discount. If they didn't do this there's a good chance their whole business would fall apart.

I'd consider losing potentially billions of dollars over the next few years to be a pretty solid message.