Verisign sued over .com and .net routing

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Verisign sued over .com and .net routing

some hope against their cybersquatting

amznVibe

3:03 am on Sep 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

Breaking news - a "search engine company" out of Florida has sued Verisign under antitrust issues.
(For those living under a rock, they are now routing all unregistered .net and .com domains to their own sitefinder search)

[reuters.com...]

Some interesting quotes in that article. I hope this forces Verisign to end this nonsense.

amznVibe

5:09 am on Sep 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

Looks like the Internet Software Consortium (ICS), which makes the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software (runs most domain name servers) has already released a patch to block "site finder":

[isc.org...]

I just still can't believe Verisign thought they could get away with this.

amznVibe

12:13 am on Sep 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

I guess y'all are talking about this in the supporters forum :(
Feels like I am missing the party or something...

msr986

2:42 am on Sep 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

willybfriendly

4:00 am on Sep 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

This hasn't gotten the press it deserves.

Twenty million times a day on our network, people mistype domains and don't get what they're looking for

If they only make an average of a nickle a person, this would be a cool $1 million a day.

VeriSign says it is merely offering a convenient service

Yeah, sign me up. Where's the free submission that is a part of this "service"?

WBF

amznVibe

2:45 pm on Sep 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

ICANN has now officially asked Verisign to cut it out:
[icann.org...]