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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Sitefinder gives ideas about BIND enhancement

[Tirel]

instead of the verisign sitelooker page, I suggest that BIND (the software that runs 60% of the DNS) should be enhanced in several ways: The most important one, IMHO, is to compute a list of close matches and present these choices to the user. They may use the Soundex algorithm or some other tricks to see if characters are transposed, if one characters is wrong, if one is missing, etc.

If well implemented, this would solve 60% of the problem. The remaining 40% is due to the fact that people sometimes doesn't actually mistype a known address... they type a dead wrong address, such as "amazonbookstore.com" instead of "amazon.com". In this case, BIND should split up the phrase into separate word (in this case "amazon book store" and redirect to a search engine with those words as parameters. The big question in this case is: which search engine?

I think that one should be able to choose, in one way or another. If not, Google would be my choice ;-)

Re:Sitefinder gives ideas about BIND enhancement

[Tirel]

The obvious solution to this would be for BIND to redirect non-existant queries to a search engine IP which would figure out your mistyped domain via referer. This, of coruse, brings up the question of referer-removing proxies, like privoxy. Now, I don't want to flamebait here, but who in the world uses those? Only criminals I would think. Why would a good netizen want to use such a tool which is obviously there to provide an extra layer of privacy on the internet (I use the term privacy lightly, since given enough focus, it's trivial to track people online). Privoxy is used 80% by people who distribute child pornography and 20% by paranoid linux hippies who like to exploit hard-working site-managers into oblivion by not viewing ads. I suggest that such proxies be made illegal and users of it expelled from the internet until they grow up or the police have enough evidence of their child molestation acts.

Re:Sitefinder gives ideas about BIND enhancement

[KrispyKringle]

Incidentally, Tirel, your signature really gives away your identity. Can't we just call you Krapongor?

I mean, seriously. Did your dad beat you, or your mom not tell you she loved you? What sort of emotional issues would lead you to get such satisfaction from acting like an immature 13 year old on the Internet? Or are you a 13 year old (if so, trust me, you'll feel stupid about this when you're older)?

Awwwwww

[Tirel]

What is this now? You bit and now you're feeling stupid for responding to such an obvious troll?

Shit, it only took 3 reposts for you to get it (and who knows how many times before by the guy who originally wrote it) !

A thought is resounding in my mind right now... YOU ARE A DUMBASS. But hey, you can always claim vlad-style retroactive trolling!