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."

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Re:Perhaps the biggest concern...

[Txiasaeia]

The biggest concern? Puhleeze. If some guy in Russia goes to check his e-mail and mistypes the domain, he's not going to say, "Whoops! I guess mail.ru decided to go English. Ah well, might as well brush up on the ol' grammar!" Of course not! He's going to re-type "mail.ru" and get to where he originally intended to go.

"A 404 in any other language still implies bad typping skils."