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Paul Vixie And David Maher On VeriSign Wildcarding
chromatic writes "The O'Reilly Network has just published an interview with Paul Vixie, chairman of the board of the Internet Software Consortium and a primary author of BIND. Topics include the recent VeriSign controversy, ISC's BIND patch in response, and other potential issues that might come to light in the near future." On a related note, dmehus writes with a link to the letter sent by David Maher, chairman of the Public Interest Registry -- the .org registrar, to ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey. "The letter says that it supports ICANN's call for VeriSign to voluntarily suspend SiteFinder and the Internet Architecture Board preliminary position paper. It goes on to say that PIR will not be implementing any DNS wildcard to the .ORG zone. It urges ICANN to stand its ground, but also to implement a policy preventing registries from taking this kind of unilateral action in the future." The letter is in .doc format, but AbiWord and OpenOffice.org both open it fine.
They sure break up the SCO stories.
How many times have you meant to go to goatse.cx and missed a letter, like goats.cx. This sort of site would help out users quite a bit. It could also offer other helpful suggestions, such as dogse.cx and pigse.cx.
I think we should all go there at once.
We can say that we were all on our way to the grocery, made a wrong turn, and ended up at his house.
Then we can demand to buy groceries.
I'm sure he won't mind. Everyones ends up at his site for that reason, right?
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
The letter is in .doc format, but AbiWord and OpenOffice.org both open it fine.
Yep, it's obvious that this is slashdot.
But I didn't care because I don't celebrate Christmas.
.museum
.a bunch of small countries
.com and .net,
.cx, .io, .mp, .museum, .nu, .ph, .td, .tk, .tv, .ws) pulled the same stunt. I probably got the relative times wrong too.
Then they came for
but I didn't care because I haven't been in one in ages.
Then they came for
But I didn't care because I've never heard of them.
Then they came for
and nobody cared because it's common business practice.
Note: according to a posting I just looked up, at least 11 TLDs (.cc,
Just surf slashdot at -1, and you'll never need to type goatse.cx - thus, no worries about mis-spelling it.
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated"
the biggest thing next to yahoo and slashdot combined with sex.com
Please, please, please never suggest slashdot combined with sex.com again.
The vision that flashed in my head when I read it made me what to flush my eyes with acid while destroying my occipital lobe with a baseball bat.
And I don't think I'll be able to keep down food for a week.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
My ISP has already routed around VeriSign's damage. Mind you, before they patched BIND (or whatever it is that they use, I never checked), I had fun with them for awhile.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
ahhh but, if you googlefight "sco sucks" and "verisign sucks", you get "sco sucks" (1880 results) versus "verisign sucks" (876 results).
Therefore, SCO sucks more! (for now)
And the muscular cyborg German dudes dance with sexy French Canadians
It doesn't matter - they're all off my Christmas card list.
The only reason verisign won that was because of all the wildcards that they added.
-S
...let them do it. Just charge them for all names registered. Assuming they wildcard the name with 26 letters plus "-", say, 20 chars deep, charge them 27^20 registered domain names. Even with a good discount, say, $0.01/domain name it will still be more than there is money on Earth :)
45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2