VeriSign Sued Over SiteFinder Service

dmehus writes "It was only a matter of time, the pundits said, and they were right. Popular Enterprises, LLC., an Orlando, Florida based cybersquatting so-called 'search services' company, has filed a lawsuit in Orlando federal court against VeriSign, Inc. over VeriSign's controversial SiteFinder 'service.' While PopularEnterprises has had a dodgy history of buying up thousands of expired domain names and redirecting them to its Netster.com commercial "search services" site, the lawsuit is most likely a good thing, as it provides one more avenue to pursue in getting VeriSign to terminate SiteFinder. According to the lawsuit, the company contends alleges antitrust violations, unfair competition and violations of the Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. It asks the court to order VeriSign to put a halt to the service. VeriSign spokesperson Brian O'Shaughnessy said the company has not yet seen the lawsuit and that it doesn't comment on pending litigation."

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Re:first verisign sux post

[Anonymous Coward]

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SWAT comes back to mind ...

[dzym]

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Re:I've never understood

[Anonymous Coward]

FROM MRS SANDRA WILLIAMS

In brief Introduction , utill we see face to face , I am MRS SANDRA WILLIAMS, a widow , my husband was Comrade George WILLIAMS of the blessd memory who died on the 25th of feb 2001 in detention in Freetown, Sierre Leone . Following the collapse of mojor Johnny Paul Koromah military regime by the combined forces of
the west Africa peace keeping force (ECOMOG) which
reinstalled the civilian elected President Alhaji
Tejan Kabbah. The President upon resumption of office , clamped down on my husband and his colleagues who served under the military arrangement of major Johnny Paul Koromah and
succeeded in killing some of them including my
husband, may his soul rest in peace Amen.
When my husband was in detention before his death , He instructed me to take possession of one large trunk box which contains the sum of US$8.5 Millions in the custody of one security company in Abidjan Cote d'ivoire. He told me to go to the under ground vault of our family house in the village, Mande that I will see the document covering the deposite of the trunk
box that when ever I declare the document to the
security company, they will release the box to me. He also instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me to invest the funds.
According to him, he said that the security company where this box where deposited do not know the exact content of the box for security reasons as it was declared as family valuables not as money. And he instructed me, in any case that I should not let the security company to know the real content of the box. Immediatly after his death I and my son where able to
move out of the country Sierra-Leone to Abidjan
Cote d'Ivoire through the help of my husband's family friend who has a fishing trawler. Now, I have located the security company here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire and were confirm really that
he deposited a trunk box in their custody through the security company Director and their executive
Officers.

Right now Iam looking for a reliable trust worthy
foreign partner who will be able to help me retreive the consignment and transfer these funds from here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire to a safe Bank account overseas and back it up when the fund enter?s his account aboard and also advice me on a favourable business investment opportunities where these funds will be effectively invest.

The security company where this box where deposited in Abidjan do not know the exact content of the box for security reasons as it was declared as family valuables not as money. So my dear , I am in the name of god soliciting for your help in this matter as this is the only hope of survival for me and my son since the man of the house is out.

I have negotiated with my son to give you 15% of the total cash as commision, while you will be gaining 5% of the monthly profit of the investment. All this are subject to negotiation upon your acceptance. Moreover, other very important details shall be made known to you as soon as I receive your positive response to this proposal.

Please help me with good spirit in the name of God
Almight Thanking you for anticipated co-operation.

Yours faithfully

MRS SANDRA WILLIAMS

obligatory, do not mod up

[bahamat]

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Re:I've never understood

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Mrs. Sandra Williams:

May your husband suck cocks in hell. Amen.

Sincerely,
God Almight

RR is blocking it

[Anonymous Coward]

but unfortunately, they are referring the sitefinder DNS entry randomly to the penis bird site and to my dreamboat:

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Piracy

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And somehow it seems strangely appropriate that today is international Talk Like A Pirate Day.

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