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Verisign ends SiteFinder service
Posted by: dadmin on: 10/05/2003 10:50 PM [ Print | 3 comment(s) ]
Facing lawsuits in addition to immense hatred and scrutiny for 'wrecking' the DNS service, Verisign decided Friday to end its SiteFinder service after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sent a formal letter to Verisign requesting it comply with shutting the service down by Saturday at 6PM Pacific time.
Sitefinder, which was thrust upon the world September 15th, was a method by which Verisign pointed misspelled or non-registered wildcard addresses to a search page owned by Verisign. Three of Verisign's competitors had filed lawsuits citing 'unfair business practice' since the wildcard extended Verisign's control over 100% of the remainder of unregistered .com and .net top-level domains. Several other organizations publicly criticized Verisign's move, explaining the change rendered useless any spam filter or email server that depended on a returned error to work properly.
Following is an excerpt from the letter written by ICANN CEO Paul Twomey:
Sitefinder, which was thrust upon the world September 15th, was a method by which Verisign pointed misspelled or non-registered wildcard addresses to a search page owned by Verisign. Three of Verisign's competitors had filed lawsuits citing 'unfair business practice' since the wildcard extended Verisign's control over 100% of the remainder of unregistered .com and .net top-level domains. Several other organizations publicly criticized Verisign's move, explaining the change rendered useless any spam filter or email server that depended on a returned error to work properly.
Following is an excerpt from the letter written by ICANN CEO Paul Twomey:
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rasp1 Registered User Posts: 362 Joined: 2002-05-12 |
#24695 Posted on: 10/06/2003 09:11 AM
FIRST POST!!!111 I'm glad they will be pulling that crap down. rasp |
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Big B Psychic or Psycho? Posts: 3631 Joined: 2001-07-03 |
#24696 Posted on: 10/07/2003 06:04 PM
Excellent, Smithers! Glad to see that going down. There is a god. MSI Z97S SLI Plus.Pentium G3258 @ 4.3GHz. 8GB GSkill DDR3-2133. Seagate 320GB. WD 1TB+160GB+160GB. LG DVDRW. XFX Radeon 7850. XFX 650W PSU. CoolerMaster 212 EVO. Win 7 |
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LaRP SMP Admin Posts: 57 Joined: 2001-05-14 |
#24697 Posted on: 10/08/2003 02:00 AM
I had read about it but never experienced it, must all you noob yanks  Gud skabte sit V |