According to a 2012 report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia, 14 states don't require licensing or certification of all counselors, only six states require a bachelor's degree and just one requires a master's degree to gain credentials.
Analysts say that VeriSign stands to gain from the expansion of domain names because it is both a registry, holding and updating a master list of domain names, and a registrar, selling the domain names to businesses and the general public.