There's another article linked to from this one that has,
> The whole point here is that Verisign gets richer while ICANN does all the dirty work. All this while ICANN will receive additional funding ($20 million) from Verisign over the next 5 years. So ICANN will be spending a part our stolen money, money ICANN helped Verisign steal from us registrants, to get higher salaries and bonuses. Thanks ICANN!!!