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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. Re:If I put an unauthorized linux install on your by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    an install of an OS on the cpu??

    NICE ONE BRUVVA!!! (fucktard)

  2. What's wrong with domain forwarding? by bro1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does anyone have any problems with that?

    Their http://sitefinder.verisign.com is clean and nice page (much like Google).

    They provide people with nice search page. MS Internet Explorer does almost exactly the same.

    Basically the people who are affected by this mostly are MS Internet Explorer users - they get non MSN based search instead of MSN one.

    And even if they put some ads later, is there anything wrong with that?

    And you can easily disable this on you machine (/etc/hosts)

  3. more /. excess hooplah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    we were some of the first to note nsi as nothing more than a gangsterious payper liesense corepirate nazi stock markup fraud, years ago.

    however, we've noted dozens of folks landing on our 'real' wwwords, after having MiStyped them into nsi's site search thingy. so what?

    be like prosecuting oj for trying to sharpen ?his? remaining knives.

    lookout bullow. the daze of the phonIE payper liesense softwar gangsters is WANing into coolapps/the abyss.