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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?"

3 of 221 comments (clear)

  1. site finder is misleading by wadiwood · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For starters, sitefinder doesn't find the slashdot site!

    It isn't nearly as helpful or reliable as google (even if google is censored a bit).

    It causes me to download more stuff than I would if they didn't have the diversion abusing my bandwith and data allowances that I have to pay for.

    I can turn the msn search in IE off. I turned the sitefinder.verisign.com off by modifying my hosts file but that isn't easy for most of the customers I support.

    --

    -- it must be true, it's on the internet.
  2. They may ask.. but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If we all add this command:

    iptables -I INPUT -j REJECT 69.94.0.0/15

    maybe that will get Verisign's attention ;p

    Afterall theres nothing they can do about people blackholing them for a good long while until they say they are sorry. As a penalty they should lower the prices of their domain registration, to something competitive.

  3. Re:A dup is okay... by mustrum_ridcully · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well if more companies behaved like this maybe the world would be a better place (well not for lawyers admittedly).

    I've lost count the number of times i've seen people in /. write "why didn't they just ask x to stop y". Well now somebody has.

    What if SCO just asked for its code not to be used instead of sending the lawyers in?

    Or Apple records asked Apple computers to stop selling music?

    etc...