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ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding

Posted by timothy on from the public-trust-and-all-that dept.

MrClever writes "In this article over at the Sydney Morning Herald (AU), it looks as though ICANN may actually be doing something about the VeriSign changes to .com and .net TLD's. Apparently, while they have been noticably quiet, they have been reviewing community reaction and analysed data from a technical perspective. Here's hoping ICANN pull the plug on VeriSign's TLD administration rights!" And TALlama writes "RSS.com.com (dear $DIETY, will it ever stop?) is reporting that ICANN has asked VeriSign 'to voluntarily suspend the service' of wildcarding DNS, 'pending further study.' Calling it a 'service' is a little bit of a misnomer. If I punch people in the face, can I call that a service, too?"

7 of 221 comments (clear)

  1. A service? by Steffen · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If I punch people in the face, can I call that a service, too?"

    Yes, because so many people need what you are selling.

    1. Re:A service? by Sindri · · Score: 5, Funny

      You punching some people at VeriSign would be a service to the internet community.

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      Sindri Traustason.
    2. Re:A service? by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
      > You punching some people at VeriSign would be a service to the internet community.

      Shift your paradigm and e-leverage yourself into the 90s already.

      Punching VeriSign people in the face is a solution, not a service.

  2. VerySued.Com by millwall · · Score: 5, Funny

    (ICANN) has asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend changes it made to domain name service zones that have resulted in most mistyped .com and .net domain names being redirected to its own site.

    I predict the most common misspelling of VeriSign.com will be VerySued.com
  3. infinite recursion by wadiwood · · Score: 4, Funny

    The sydney morning herald is not known for original reporting, everything is duplicated in the Melbourne Age for starters...

    Loop:

    Slashdot reports story, smh reports story, slashdot reports smh reporting (slashdot story), smh reports story again (cos Slashdot did).

    Repeat until servers full.

    --

    -- it must be true, it's on the internet.
  4. A dup is okay... by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny
    After all, when Verisign pays no attention to ICANN's asking them to stop, ICANN will ask them again--maybe even notorized! That'll sure bring Verisign to their knees, oh yeah.

    Wake me up when it escalates to wrist-slapping.

    --
    One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
  5. Re:GST by Horny+Smurf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Assuming you have ten fingers,10% is 1 finger... and I know which one I'd give to the gov't.