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VeriSign Responds To ICANN's SiteFinder Advisory
dmehus writes "VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services division has written to ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey regarding the recent advisory concerning VeriSign's DNS wildcard redirection service. In the letter, VeriSign's Rusty Lewis says that they are open to independent and objective technical concerns expressed by various Internet bodies; they have formed their own "independent" panel of industry leading experts to produce its own, separate report; and they will not voluntarily suspend SiteFinder. It's a very terse response, and frankly, I'd have expected more from them. Slashdot readers are encouraged to visit ICANNWatch for in-depth, expert discussion on this and other issues."
From the letter to ICANN:
As to your call for us to suspend the service, I would respectfully suggest that it would be premature to decide on any course of action until we first have had an opportunity to collect and review the available data.
Well, I think that the world would have appreciated the same level of consideration before the system was ever even implemented in the first place.
Unilateral Military Action.
In case you are not a doubleplusgood duckspeaker, here is a helpful translation of Verisign's letter to ICANN.
.com and .net zones.
Dear Paul:
Translation: Dear meddlesome twit:
This will respond to the ICANN Advisory concerning VeriSign's Deployment of DNS Wildcard Service dated 19 September 2003.
We're about to tell you where you can stick your "advisory".
In the footsteps of several other registries that have done the same, we recently deployed a wildcard in the
Verisign has no problem being just as sleazy and underhanded as any of our competitors.
This was done after many months of testing and analysis and in compliance with all applicable technical standards.
Marketing sees dollar signs, and legal says we can get away with it.
All indications are that users, important members of the internet community we all serve, are benefiting from the improved web navigation offered by Site Finder.
None of the lusers who installed "The Internet" on their computers has a clue that we've even done anything.
These results are consistent with the findings from the extensive research we performed.
They are, however, clicking the pretty buttons, just like we hoped they would.
We are, of course, very interested in any objective technical information ICANN may have received concerning the service and would welcome the opportunity to work with you to review such data. To that end, we have reached out to schedule meetings... of leading experts in the field.
Let's have a meeting. Then another. Then another. Then, we'll codify the new de facto "standard".
As to your call for us to suspend the service, I would respectfully suggest that it would be premature to decide on any course of action until we first have had an opportunity to collect and review the available data.
We're going to get our way, because we can, and there's nothing you can do about it. Weenie.
After completing an assessment of any operational impact of our wildcard implementation, we will take any appropriate steps necessary.
And if we don't get our way, we'll pay off anyone we need to.
I look forward to continuing to work with you on this issue.
Kiss our ass.
Best Regards,
See you in Hell,
Russell Lewis
Executive Vice President, General Manager
VeriSign Naming and Directory Services
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
The same "independent" panel of industry leading experts recommends SCO's Linux license and conducted a study showing that Windows is indeed cheaper than Linux and BSD.
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We'll know if these "negotiations" fall apart if "www.icannwatch.org" suddenly displays SiteFinder.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
A quick look at fasilmile.com reveals that VeriSign invented it. Link
And the l33t shall inherit the 34r7h.
Dear Paul
After the extensive research of how IE directs bad names to MSN Search, we decided that we couldn't let the bastards at MS be only ones that makes money off of poor saps who can't type their URLs right.
We really don't give a rat's ass about what ICANN thinks but just to shut your whiney mouth off, I hires a review panel of leading experts in the field. They include Linux code reviewers from SCO, the guy who thought of domain parking for Register.COM, and the guy who invented One-Click shopping.
As to your call for us to suspend the service, I'd like to politely say "go fuck yourself" with the upmost respect ICANN's Chairman, Vint Cerf, and ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee, Steve Crocker. Crocker, now that's a funny name, just like ICANN.
If you send any more letters, I will personally wipe my ass with it.
Go to hell,
Russell Lewis
Executive Vice President, General Manager
All Your Typos Are Belong To Us, Inc.
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WAR!
Lauch the blacklists!!!
Verisign just lost it's monopoly over DNS with this stunt methinks. They pised off ICANN, EFF, Slashdot, 99% of the tech industry, and instead of putting their foot in to test the water and going "oh, the shark that just bit my foot off might be a problem" they say "eh, it's just a foot". Everyone is justifyable angry about this.
So, they took of their glove, slapped a couple million people in the face, threw the glove to the ground and drew their sword, to have a mideval analogy.
I say we blacklist their entire domain of advertising websites. A form of blackmail and protest; if nobody can get to their website to register, then they can't very well do buisness effectivly now can they? Sure, people'll get angry about how they can't reregister. The whole point is to show verisign what happens when you piss us off. Lets make a mess so big out of this that they'll never recover!
Candy-Coated Knowledge
Que?
All these changes to the good ol' Internet. Back in my day there was one registrar, and we liked it. And none of this "broadband" hooey. We had real modems that made squeely noises, and it was good enough then, its good enough now.
Damn kids these days...
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Dear verisign,
The recent update to BIND contains a feature you should be aware of.
In 1 month, every lookup for any domain registered directly with verisign will fail with %0.1 probability.
The probability will increase by %0.1 per day until the wildcard issue is resolved or until verisign becomes useless as a registrar.
We look forward to a prompt and amicable resolution.
Best wishes,
The Internet.
Dear Verisign,
I have heard that you guys are running a very useful website where I can get information about how to find other web sites (called sitefinder or something like that). Would you be so kind as to provide for me the URL for this website?
Best, a user
Because apparently www.fuckverisignuptheass.com leads to their wonderful service.
~ a low user id is no indication I have a clue what I'm talking about.
i don't think i've ever read such a moronic response to such an insightful observation
There ya go, folks. Absolute proof of the existence of an alternate universe and our ability to communicate with it.
"IANAL, but is there any legal precidence about this type of licence"
:; do w3m -dump_source "http://64.94.110.11/I_AS_A_USER_DO_NOT_BENEFIT_FR OM_YOUR_BROKEN_DNS_BASTARDISATIONS" >/dev/null; done &
Zero, zip, nothing nada.
I've not actually received or read such terms and conditions, as I've blindly run
while
as 20 parallel processes without looking at what they're returning.
My girlfriend, however, will inform me of any change to that IP address, so I can kill all my scripts and begin again.
My hub's looking like a christmas tree, and if you wish to replicate that pretty effect, then you too can run the above script.
YAW
Your head of state is a corrupt weasel, I hope you're happy.
Good to see that verisignsucks.it still does the proper thing.
And doesn't suck it.
Sometimes you have to watch those crafty Italians.
I currently have no clever signature witicism to add here.