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Stop Verisign DNS Abuse |
October 3rd 2003
September 29th 2003 Register.com asks VeriSign to stop SiteFinder To VeriSign's Chief Litigation Counsel from Register.com We represent Register.com, Inc., a leading domain registrar and a direct competitor of your subsidiary Network Solutions, Inc. We are writing this letter to ... September 28th 2003 Jay Westerdal on the Value of Trust Dear Fellow Internet users, On September 15th VeriSign unexpectedly and with no warning started resolving every non-existent domain name ending in .COM or .NET to a pay-per-click search program called SiteFinder. ... September 27th 2003 3rd Lawsuit against VeriSign's SiteFinder VeriSign is facing a new class-action lawsuit over its controversial "SiteFinder" service, which redirects all misspelled or unassigned .com domain names to a search page managed by the domain name registrar. The ... September 26th 2003 Elliot Noss of Tucows in Response to SiteFinder Elliot Noss the President of Tucows responds to SiteFinder in his daily blog. Stewardship...One who manages another's property, finances, or other affairs. I have been thinking a lot about stewardship lately in ... September 23rd 2003 PIR supports suspension of VeriSign DNS wildcard service The Public Interest Registry (PIR), manager of the .ORG domain, today announced its opposition to VeriSign's deployment of a Domain Name System (DNS) wildcard service in a letter to Dr. Paul Twomey, President & CEO of the ... September 22nd 2003 Site finding system faces suspension A controversial change to the way the net handles mistyped domain name queries could soon be suspended. Last week .com and .net registry Verisign replaced the error message that usually greets users looking for mistyped ... GoDaddy sues Verisign over SiteFinder Go Daddy Software, Inc. has filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Arizona against VeriSign Inc. seeking a temporary restraining order against VeriSign's new Site Finder service, a paid advertising page VeriSign has ... VeriSign seeks advice on controversial new service (Sep 22nd) VeriSign Inc. said on Monday it would ask outside experts to review its controversial new service that captures mistaken Web searches after being hit with two lawsuits and opposition from the body that oversees Internet ... September 19th 2003 Petition Update: WHOIS.SC managed to import the first 10,000 signatures and duplicated the PetitionOnline system on their own servers! Nice job. This means you can still sign the petition (apparently we missed 5000+ signups at PetitionOnline.com's site and we didn't have a copy of the data saved yet). September 18th 2003 VeriSign Sued Over Controversial Web Service (Sep 18th) An Internet search company on Thursday filed a $100 million antitrust lawsuit against VeriSign Inc., accusing the Web address provider of hijacking misspelled and unassigned Web addresses with a service it launched this ... Petition Update: Due to the extreme popularity of this petition, the PetitionOnline.com website was/is having major problems, we gathered some 15,000+ signatures and then suddely lost them all for some wierd reason. No one was reachable at PetitionOnline.com and the website now only shows the first 178 signatures instead of the 15,000+ that signed in the first 3 days alone. September 16th 2003 All your Web typos belong to us - VeriSign Network administrators are fuming about changes made by domain registrar Verisign to the DNS system yesterday amid concern that the alterations could make it difficult for mail servers to reject mail from invalid domains. ... VeriSign hijacks web sites if mistyped Mistype a Web address, and the generic error message that appears in your browser window offers few clues about how to reach the site you're seeking. VeriSign Inc., which directs traffic for much of the Internet, ... A wave of Web profits in guiding lost surfers Type in an Internet query, and inadvertently leave off the dot in .com, .net or .org. Or try to find, say, Target's Web site, but mistakenly tap www.arget.com in the browser. Everybody makes such mistakes. In fact, so ... Verisign broke the Internet Criticism is quickly growing over VeriSign's surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names, a move that has wreaked havoc on many e-mail utilities and antispam filters. On Monday, ... Petition Update: George Kirikos launches Stop VeriSign petition at PetitionOnline. September 15th 2003 Verisign Launches SiteFinder. |
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