NetworkSolutions has an interesting history of having been fortunate enough to be issued a monopoly by the US Government in the early days of the internet. This placed them firmly into the defense industrial complex, and for a time they were a subsidiary of major defense contractor SAIC/Leidos. Ultimately, though, NS cranked up rates so high that complaints from industry were a big factor in precipitating the formation of ICANN. NS reacted to the loss of their monopoly by going almost comically far in the direction of the villain, and has spent the better part of 30 years desperately trying to entrap their customers due to their general failure to innovate.
Of course that's a very critical take on the company, but I don't think I'm anywhere near alone in finding it frankly astounding that NetworkSolutions still exists as a major concern. The writing was on the wall for NetworkSolutions, as far as technical leadership, by the time they went public. Despite this investors have seen them as a milkable cow and the cash grab continues to the present.