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Verisign Typosquatter Explorer
jelyon quotes Seth Finkelstein's website "I have written a program " Verisign Typosquatter Explorer" in order to examine [the Verisign] suggestions [for mistyped domains]. Future data may be analyzed as interest permits.
Note tests with some domains seem to return results which are not constant, i.e. differences when the program is run repeatedly. This is not a program bug. Reloading the Verisign page also changes which squat-suggested domains are displayed. I don't believe it's an advertising rotation, but the behavior is similar to that practice."
"I don't believe it's an advertising rotation..."
It's a feature!
Two fish swim into a wall, one turns to the other and says, "Dam".
Everyone goto http://verisignneedstogetaclue.com
Yeah, let's do it. We'll start with a biological attack on the whole planet ... wait ... who's that ... is that you, NSA? Oh shit!
Take it easy? I'll take it anyway I can get it . . .
time on your hands...
If I make a type for "slashdot" such as salhsdtot.com it suggests goatse.cx as a top candidate. That's some pretty smart AI VeriSign has.
Trolling is a art,
I cannot get to 64.94.110.11.
Either it is not responding, or our network is blocking it.
I'll be back, motherfuckers.
I bet Michael Sims was DDOSing me.
I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
If a large number of /.ers were to run a short script that tried to resolve random nonexistent domains, how long would it be before the root servers crashed?
/.ing the root servers.
Don't forget, YOU would not have done anything but asked your ISP's DNS for info. IT will be the one
Not that I suggest you do this.
The latest Slashdot meme.
Not to give anyone any ideas, but wouldn't it be poetic justice if, say, all the unused phone numbers in the US were suddenly directed to Verisign's toll-free line.
Because sitefinder-idn.verisign.com runs Linux, and now 99.99999999% of all domains now point to it, almost 100% of the Internet is now running Linux!
If it were a Linux program it would be called kvtse or gvtse depending on whether it's for Gnome or KDE.
And you'd just have to do it all over again in 15-20 years, since that's exactly how the current net started.
Nah, it wouldn't be nearly as hard the second time around. It's like the project I worked on for a year... the day of the demo, I tripped and broke my computer, and by coincidence, all of my backups burned up in a fire because the network weenie was freebasing again. Anyway, I rewrote the whole thing in 7 minutes using nothing but Perl scripts and a bobby pin and it was ever better than before.
Mod it down, I have so much karma that it makes my nipples constantly hard... it's becoming embarassing.
To ensure perfect aim, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target
Dude,
You gotta, like, get professional language-ified an' stuff, 'cos those suits don't give one damn about 17 year old kids.
Your letter reads a like Ellen Feiss:
"So I was surfing the internet on my PC, when VeriSign redirecteded my mispelled domain name.... BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. They're hijacking the internet.... it's such............ a bummer."
Congratulations on the first correct use of "your" vs "you're" in a troll.
From the verisign-grs.com WHOIS:
Administrative Contract:
VERISIGN GLOBAL REGISTRY SERVICES rcc@verisign.com
21345 Ridgetop Circle
Dulles, VA 20166
US
703-742-0400 fax: 703-421-6703
Dunno how correct it is...god forbid that Verisign should put incorrect info in the whois database.
Sweet. That's an excelent term. It's tempting to write a great, big essay bemoaning slacktivism, but I can't because I am a slacktivist.
Furry cows moo and decompress.
Yes, and I'd like an hour on the holodeck with Seven of Nine. /sarcasm