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VeriSign DNS in Trouble

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-so-terrible-for-them dept.

hesiod writes "Over at CNet News, there is an article reporting that VeriSign may lose their ability to sell domains. Evidently, ICANN is miffed because VS's WHOIS database has incorrect information. Not exactly news to most of us, but they have been given 15 days to fix the errors, or risk losing the ability to sell domains."

3 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. How convenient by gmhowell · · Score: 4, Informative

    Verisign has given me about 15 days to renew my registration of domain.

    Not gonna happen.

    Hello gandi.net

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    Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
  2. i'm forgetting again by gsfprez · · Score: 5, Informative

    what law is it breaking to have incorrect data?

    in fact, i have incorrect data because i and my wife were being stalked - and the WHOIS database is where he thought i lived. He went looking for us at the old address.

    and what's the worst part of all - to have ANY level of security from a whois search that could give sickos and perverts your address is by getting a P.O. Box.. from the USPS!

    Imagine, the key to internet privacy is the Postal Service. Now that's just great.

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    guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
  3. Letter from Louis Touton by nutznboltz · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.icann.org/correspondence/touton-letter- to-beckwith-03sep02.htm

    Cites the 17 broken entries.