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ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. This isn't really new. by windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    Forgive me if I'm being idiotic about this, but relatively recently, the .museum TLD went live. It's just like any other TLD except that domains that don't exist diect you to a page saying the domain doesn't exist and with a couple of links. It's not very different than Verisign's SIteFinder, but there's little to no outcry over this. I'm curious because a lot of the objections about SiteFinder should also be true about the .museum TLD. What's different here?

  2. IAB response isn't by Frater+219 · · Score: 5, Informative
    "The Internet Architecture Board issued this response to an ICANN inquiry about Verisign's SiteFinder service."

    Actually, if you read that article you will find that it is dated January 25 and is a response to another Verisign screwup. That one was similar to the present one, but had specifically to do with "internationalized" domain names -- DNS records for strings with characters above ASCII position 127.

    Historians find it important to check the dates of events and documents, so they can know which ones could possibly be responses to which other situations. For instance, an American comedian telling anti-French racial jokes in August 2001 could not possibly be responding to the French objection to Bush's war. Similarly, a document released January 25 2003 cannot be a response to a situation that arises the following September. Time just doesn't work that way.

  3. Get the latest version of BIND by AchmedHabib · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get the latest version of BIND to block that Verisign junk. go here
    Now all it needs is support for the Evil-Bit in TCP/IP

  4. Real IAB Response by bigal123 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The response in the orignal article links to something old. Here is the IAB's offical reponse. The bottom has a whole section on "Principles, Conclusions, and Recommendations" Good reading http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-w ildcards.html