[CLUE-Talk] Anti-Verisign petition (was: Re: [CLUE-Tech] How to Thwart Verisign's Latest DNS Trickery)

[Evan Widger]

Adam Bultman wrote:
>><quote>
>>As of a little while ago (it is around 7:45 PM US Eastern on Mon 15 Sep
>>2003 as I write this), VeriSign added a wildcard A record to the .COM and
>>.NET TLD DNS zones. The IP address returned is 64.94.110.11, which
>>reverses to sitefinder.verisign.com. What that means in plain English is
>>that most mis-typed domain names that would formerly have resulted in a
>>helpful error message now results in a VeriSign advertising opportunity.
>>For example, if my domain name was 'somecompany.com,' and somebody typed
>>'soemcompany.com' by mistake, they would get VeriSign's advertising.
>></quote>




just thought i'd pass this on, it's an online petition to have ICANN 
make Verisign stop abusing the DNS system.

http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/petition.html

i've been hearing more vigilante methods of making it painful for 
verisign to have umpteen billion domains resolve to few IP addresses, 
invlolving mostly pseudo-DDOS tactics, but don't want to go there, as 
one wrong doesn't justify another. (the justification i've read is that 
most of the ideas only hit randomly named domains about 4 or 5 times 
each, and that if they hadn't broken the system, it wouldn't work)

hopefully this petition will force verisign to change their unfair 
business practices and/or give the .com/.net TLD's to someone that will 
act fairly.

-Evan Widger (number 4372 somewhere in there)