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Verisign Shuts Down Domain Policy List

Posted by timothy on from the own-a-press dept.

topeka writes: "From ICANN.Blog: 'Without warning or explanation, and without even providing list members an opportunity to reorganize, Verisign today closed the long-running 'DOMAIN-POLICY' list.'" tdye adds: "Even the archives are apparently gone, before they could be rescued. Some interesting comments on the shutdown here(1) and here(2)."

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  1. "Never attribute to malice.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    Just checking:
    Has anyone tried contacting Verisign and politely asking for a copy of the archives? If you're nice, they may even give a copy of the email list to some respectable third party for a few days so people can make contacts and undertake transitioning?
    If you try and they refuse, you have a much better upper hand thing if you are going to be bitter about this.
  2. Re:don't whine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    Meanwhile: have you ever heard of courtesy to your customers?

    A corporation which has been granted by the government with an important (and LUCRATIVE) public function has, by implication, given up some of its "freedom" to treat profits its sole priority. It still has freedom, yes-- this is why it can do what it just did-- but it also has something else, something which is quite interesting and isn't usually held by a corporation: OBLIGATIONS. Theoretically it is now a part of the whole "consent of the governed" social contract now, and must take the greater good of the general populace into consideration or else said social contract may be terminated from the general populace's end.

    And even ignoring that, even if the government hadn't given them what it did, it is generally considered considerate to do things like give users of a service you provide fair warning when the service is to be discontinued, so that your users may undertake transitioning ahead of time. This is usually a good idea if you want to keep the good will of your former customers, so that they will want to come back to you to use your services in the future.

    Didn't Ayn Rand just HATE govenment-granted monopolies?

  3. Google Cached the Archives - copy them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    Google Cached the Domain-Policy Lists Archives - copy them

    Copy the archives at Google's cache. Do it before Verisign asks Google to remove them from its cache.

    Questions:
    Assuming a reliable, reasonably trustworthy competitor picks up running the list and is allowed to provide access to the cached archives, might this be a good thing? It adds value to the new company and diminishes the value of Verisign?
    Maybe this would be more important if more people knew what the list was and how it might help them, could someone provide a good description of what the list is and how it has helped them?

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  4. Declan McC has asked, response pending by griffjon · · Score: 5

    When Declan sent this news to the politech list he cced a verisign contact asking if the list was to be released.

    Text URL to the politech post: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02060.html

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