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.cc: Verisign's "Next .com" That China Read as 商业公司—Not Cocos Islands Commerce
eNIC/Verisign stack, Google gccTLD status, ~2.8M passive-DNS census vs the old guide's 600–800K fiction, May 2016 $8 wholesale cut (not a 2018 hike), 2015 China 17-yuan promos—and why co.cc spam, unverified SOE Mad Libs, and AIO boilerplate failed audit.
