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

[Charles Oriez]

At 03:24 PM 9/17/2003 -0600, Evan Widger wrote:

>Adam Bultman wrote:
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>>>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.
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>just thought i'd pass this on, it's an online petition to have ICANN make 
>Verisign stop abusing the DNS system.
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>http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/petition.html
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>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)
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>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.
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>-Evan Widger (number 4372 somewhere in there)

slow poke.  I was 491 this morning.

ICANN just signed a renewal of its MOU with the Dept of Commerce to 
continue managing the internet.  I intend to chase down the Federal 
Register entry and see if the comment period just started.  I think the 
failure of ICANN to revoke Verisign's right to manage the root servers 
after this means that ICANN is no longer fit to fill its role, either.




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