3rd Lawsuit Against VeriSign Seeks Class Action

dmehus writes "A third lawsuit has been filed late Friday in a federal district court in California against VeriSign, Inc. over its controversial DNS wildcard redirection service known as SiteFinder. According to the article, it was filed by longtime Internet litigator Ira Rothken. In addition, while two other lawsuits have been filed by Go Daddy Software, Inc. and Popular Enterprises, LLC. in Arizona and Florida, this is the first lawsuit to seek class-action status."

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Re:Here's a question...

[Anonymous Coward]

Guess they should have done this earlier, before the DOS against the non-existant windowsupdate.com was launched.

Seven Stages of the Internet

[ubiquitin]

1. The distributed network in its infancy is lovingly brought to life by researchers: arpanet is born.
2. Rapid protocol development as the network begins to start walking: from gopher to httpd to mosaic. Email and usenet populate most universities.
3. Private enterprise realize the potential and small companies start forming around services and products aimed at network usage. Network usage is a daily exercise for academics and early adopters. Linux arrives and Slashdot's squeaky pubescent voice first heard.
4. The internet meets the economy and Wall Street goes apeshit. Billion dollar companies are started, sustained, and identified by their position on the network and mindshare of net users. The network is the computer.
5. Infrastructure buildout is complete, and educated people worldwide use it as a communication medium. Initial high-growth opportunities are gone so Wall Street sours on the newness, returning its attention to fundamentals of profit-grubbing.
6. Annoying spammers take over, search engines are all manipulated, pop-ups for porn and travel are everywhere, Microsoft mass-marketed virus hysteria takes place, simple hosting efforts become a bitch.
7. Lawyers and short-sighted opportunists inexorably and slowly strip everything likeable from the network by lawmaking and lawsuits until there is nothing left but death and taxes.

Shakespeare's As You Like It (Act 2:7) ...man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Great, a class-action suit.

[anon*127.0.0.1]

Let me guess... it'll be settled out of court, Verisign will admit no wrongdoing, the lawyers will get a few million dollars, and we'll all the $5 off the next domain we register with Verisign.

I can hardly contain my enthusiasm.