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ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder
Froomkin writes "ICANN this morning announced that it sent VeriSign an ultimatum: pull sitefinder by tomorrow evening or we'll sue. Details and links to discussion of the contractual and legal issues in ICANN Throws Down the Gauntlet to VeriSign on Sitefinder at ICANNWatch." Update: 10/03 19:29 GMT by M : Verisign blinked.
It's good to know that ICANN has at least a little backbone left. I for one welcome our ICANN overlords
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
My name is ICCANa MOntoya, you killa my DNS, prepare to die!
Basically anyone but verisign.
alias dir='rm -rf
You have 36 hours to pull sitefinder or we will bring in the Mallard Ducks.
...my name is ICCANa SUEya, you killa my DNS, prepare to die penniless!
Geek used to be a four letter word. Now it's a six-figure one.
Do we hate icann on fridays? :-)
I always thought we we supposed to hate icann, but this story leaves me with such mixed emotions. Can I hate verisign and icann today?
Some one tell me how to feel please.
Wang 33
"Your breath smells like dead bunnies"
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What will happen when VeriSign doesn't do anything tomorrow?
SCO will pull their UNIX licenses.
Wow! This is almost like that gunfight between the Earps and the Clantons at the OK Corral.
Pass the popcorn!
!@#$% whole-grain cereal. When I want fiber, I eat some wicker furniture. - G. Carlin
"They are in a position to seariously mess up the DNS system."
Oh crap! They're already worming their way into spell-check!
SCO today acquired Verisign Corporation. SCO CEO Darl McBride said of the acquisition; "We saw a real opportunity for litigation when ICAAN announced they might sue. We feel it would be irresponsible to our investors to pass up such an opportunity and we bought them out."
SCO is presently awaiting ICAAN's law suit at which time it plans to file massive countersuits. Additionally, SCO has begun sending invoices to internet users for the use of thier "Patented DNS system". SCO representatives said the planed to mail the first million invoices on Monday and that the invoices were for ammounts of $699 to $699,000,000.
In other news SCO stock(SCOX) soared on the announcement of the Verisign acquisition.
I don't know what's more worrying; that the page doesn't validate or that someone actually tested it.
How will I ever be able to find my sites now?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Hitler vs. Stalin: sometimes you've got to choose a side.
"If Hitler invaded Hell, I should at least give the Devil a favorable mention in the House of Commons."
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
I guess it's time to send lots of complaints to postmaster@doesntmatterwhatiputherezxyyz.com.
How can the first post be redundant?
My future's determined by Thieves, thugs, and vermin -- The Offspring
Just 2 days after I finally get Cox Communications to install the DNS patch...
Couldn't ICANN have let me stay a hero for just a few more days?
Oh my god, we've slashdotted www.ssdlfkjsdf.com!!!!
Pass me the popcorn, as we see ICANN tumble to its much deserved end.
I mean, you don't really think verisign will do much more than tell them to shove it, do you? What will ICANN do then? Come down on verisign with all its awesome power and might? Uh, yes, all of it. Oh, so scared.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
ICANN grows a pair
My amazing wife - Artist, Author, Philosopher - Laurie M
To paraphrase a little
...
Dear Rusty,
Blah blah blah
Do it or it your ass!
Best Regards
Paul
It's like watching two Englishmen having a civilized cup of tea while trading insults.
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
No wonder Verisign didn't respond, September 19th is talk like a pirate day. I'm pretty sure ICANN didn't send a message with 'avast ye scurvy dogs! ye shanghi'd the entire high seas and should be keel hauled like dirty traitorous bilge rats!'
- You don't know how to maintain a station wagon either!
The $64,000 question is, can the domain not found response be modified at all without breaking the protocol? For instance, to have older programs recognize the error, but next generation programs (web browsers mainly) be able to return useful information like possible alternatives?
There is NO NEED to ABUSE the DNS PROTOCOL. If you feel an APPLICATION needs to behave a certain way when an NXDOMAIN response is appropriate, rewrite the application to do that.
LOOK:
Browser/options/network (or something):
When server does not exist
[.] Display modal error message
[.] Display non-modal error message
[X] Redirect to:
[.] Domain search site A
[.] Domain search site B
[.] Domain search site C
[X] Custom search:
[ http://www.indiesearchguys.net?host=%h ]
Hey, I added value to one application without BREAKING ANYTHING ELSE! I must be some kind of GENIUS in the field of the OBVIOUS!
I wonder if by his expression that he knew he was ending up on this slide
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
It's funny how they said "without so much as a hearing..."
A *hearing* would have been the final word on the matter, beyond which people could start paying fines and going to jail for contempt of court. They wouldn't let it get to that stage (courtroom), and they know it.
Funny how they spin that... "They didn't even file a suit and take us to court before they asked us to fulfull our contractural obligations. Those big dummy heads."
In other news, my mortgage company expected my check this month "without so much as a hearing"...
Oh, and my boss didn't even have to sue me to get me to come to work this week! Amazing.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
WTF is this bastard smoking? If I ever run into this guy on the streets, I'm going to shove a pineapple up his ass and say that there's no data to indicate that he's going to have trouble pooping.
-Lucas