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Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards
"(VeriSign is a company which purchased Network Solutions, another company which was given the task by the US government of running the .COM and .NET top-level domains (TLDs). VeriSign has been exploiting the Internet's DNS infrastructure ever since.)
This will have the immediate effect of making network trouble-shooting much more difficult. Before, a mis-typed domain name in an email address, web browser, or other network configuration item would result in an obvious error message. You might not have known what to do about it, but at least you knew something was wrong. Now, though, you will have to guess. Every time.
Some have pointed out that this will make an important anti-spam check impossible. A common anti-spam measure is to check and make sure the domain name of the sender really exists. (While this is easy to force, every little bit helps.) Since all .COM and .NET domain names now exist, that anti-spam check is useless.
VeriSign has published white papers about their implementation and also made some recommendations."
I oughta be able to bring em to their knees in a day or two.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
Verisign just DDOSed itself by redirecting untold numbers of spam bounces to a single IP. Good job, guys!
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It is not that bad. At least if you enter "Verisign sucks big donkey balls", two of the three first results are from Slashdot.
For example, if my domain name was 'somecompany.com,' and somebody typed 'soemcompany.com' by mistake...
What do you mean, "by msiatke"?
Anyone have any information on whom to contact to put an end to this absurdity?
I think you mean Commander Taco. Or were you talking about that dns thing?
when you fuck an RFC in the ass. *baseball bat on car headlight*
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
They are running Linux.
Just a little humour...
Actually, the verisign search seems to be pretty good. A search for FUCK VERISIGN returns a slashdot article about verisign sending out deceptive domain renewal mail as the second result.
This is one helluva of a way to drum up traffic, so I'd be curious to know what kind of steroid-pumped uber-server and fat petabyte pipe they plan to run their site on. Personally, I suspect the ad page will be taken down by Verisign themselves when they smell smoke coming from the server room and see their sysadmin's running around naked on the front lawn while tearing out their hair and screaming "SWEET MOTHER OF SMEGMA, MAKE THEM STOP!!!".
Everybody wins!
you should read everything on the internet as if it had "but I'm probably talking out of my ass" appended to it.
No, the real fun is that if you misspell verisign like this: :)
http://www.veirsign.com
Looks like someone beat them at their own game.
If you look for a file that doesn't exist on your hard drive, you will get ads for MS Office, telling you that you can create your own files with that!