To be considered for acceptance into the program,
please print and complete the appropriate applications
and fax the forms to +1-703-421-5828.
Verisign, a company intimately involved with the Internet at every level, wants faxed forms, in the year 2011? For access to the TLD zone files, something technical enough that a sane person must have been involved at some point? I can't decide if it's funny or sad.
I've always heard that faxes may have some kind of legal status that other electronic communications don't (why?), but this is just getting silly.
Even more mind-blowing: Apple, one of the most forward-looking companies in the world, requires faxed forms for enrollment in their paid dev programs. They won't accept them via email (even though you know the fax number is a fax-to-email setup) and refused my faxed PDFs (copies of an electronic filing) of my articles of incorporation because they weren't authentic (read: photocopied) enough - despite being the authoritative (PDF) copies from the state.
I've always heard that faxes may have some kind of legal status that other electronic communications don't (why?), but this is just getting silly.