ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder

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ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday September 20, 2003 @01:21AM from the trying-the-polite-approach-first dept.

dmehus writes "ICANN issued an advisory late today concerning VeriSign's controversial SiteFinder service. The advisory requests that VeriSign voluntarily suspend SiteFinder until various independent and objective reviews, which are now underway, have been completed. Interested parties should see the advisory for more details." I think most people here can agree it was a bad idea, although it's not generating revenue for most of us either. ICANN isn't alone here either. Nuclear Elephant writes "The Internet Architecture Board issued this response to an ICANN inquiry about Verisign's SiteFinder service."

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Re:Good by SmallFurryCreature · 2003-09-20 01:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Simple shoot marketing.

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Right, then! by moehoward · 2003-09-20 01:39 · Score: 4, Funny

We won't have any of this "advertising" on the Internet. The Internet is surely doomed if we allow it.

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I really hope they take it down.. by Aliencow · 2003-09-20 01:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Because for now, All our inexistant bases are belong to them.
Re: I'd love to have been a fly on the wall... by gidds · 2003-09-20 02:37 · Score: 2, Funny

Hanlon's Razor may well apply here.

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Re:So who gets the money ? by zerocool^ · 2003-09-20 03:09 · Score: 1, Funny

"What we've witnessed here is a motherfucking miracle. God came down from heaven and stopped those motherfucking DNS lookups from hitting any server but verisign's."

~Will

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Re:I'd love to have been a fly on the wall... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-20 03:21 · Score: 2, Funny

According to research at an English university, flies are unable to comprehend human language.
Re:IAB response isn't by replicant108 · 2003-09-20 04:30 · Score: 2, Funny

Just as a war planned in July 2001 cannot possibly be a response to an event that took place in September.

Oh, wait a minute...