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Paul Vixie And David Maher On VeriSign Wildcarding

Posted by timothy on from the ain't-fair-fellas dept.

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.

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  1. Know what's great about these Verisign stories? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They sure break up the SCO stories.

  2. I think Christmas Islands needs to follow Verisign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Anybody know Verisign's CEO's home address? by fireboy1919 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  4. First they came for .cx by lightspawn · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I didn't care because I don't celebrate Christmas.

    Then they came for .museum
    but I didn't care because I haven't been in one in ages.

    Then they came for .a bunch of small countries
    But I didn't care because I've never heard of them.

    Then they came for .com and .net,
    and nobody cared because it's common business practice.

    Note: according to a posting I just looked up, at least 11 TLDs (.cc, .cx, .io, .mp, .museum, .nu, .ph, .td, .tk, .tv, .ws) pulled the same stunt. I probably got the relative times wrong too.