VeriSign Shutting Down Site Finder

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VeriSign Shutting Down Site Finder

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 4, 2003 @06:49AM from the but-guys-what's-the-big-deal dept.

00420 writes "VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to shut down its new Site Finder service Friday, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes. Of course they're not taking it down because it affected the internet, they're just doing it to keep good relations with the technical community. (Seems a little late for that doesn't it?)" The shutdown is not complete yet, though: VeriSign hasn't changed their wildcard DNS entry (64.94.110.11).

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Starwars Moment by Lord_Dweomer · 2003-10-04 06:51 · Score: 2, Funny

Anybody else having that giddy feeling right now? Like the first time you saw Luke blow up the Deathstar in A New Hope?

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1. Re:Starwars Moment by aardvarkjoe · 2003-10-04 06:54 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  That means that we're going to have a bigger, badder SiteFinder pretty soon, right?
  
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2. Re:Starwars Moment by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-04 07:04 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  > I'm not getting a good feeling about it. Look to the bottom of the article, and you'll see:
  
  Going with the Star Wars theme, aren't you supposed to say, "I have a bad feeling about this?"
3. Re:Starwars Moment by Kenja · 2003-10-04 07:10 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  [Emperor Voice]I'm afraid the Site Finder will be quite operational by the time your friends arrive.[/Emperor Voice]
  
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  "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
4. Re:Starwars Moment by spektr · 2003-10-04 07:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That means that we're going to have a bigger, badder SiteFinder pretty soon, right?
  
  We could find: "www.gnu.org" There is a Web site at this address. Are you sure? (*) No ( ) Yes [SUMBIT] Did You Mean ? We did find these similar Web addresses.
  www.sun.com
  www.microsoft.com
  www.sco.com
5. Re:Starwars Moment by Lord_Dweomer · 2003-10-04 07:17 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  " That means that we're going to have a bigger, badder SiteFinder pretty soon, right?"
  My friend read your reply, and said, "Don't worry, Lando will blow it up and save us all."
  To which I replied, "Lando is a fictional character who doesn't exist."
  He got a very hurt, very serious look on his face and replied in a very shakey voice, "Lando WILL save us all!"
  I made my exit from the computer lab shortly after for fear he would go wookie on me and rip my arms off.
  
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6. Re:Starwars Moment by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-04 07:29 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Ackbar: It's a TRAP!!!!!!!!!
7. Re:Starwars Moment by NanoGator · 2003-10-04 13:58 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "I'm afraid the Site Finder will be quite operational by the time your friends arrive."
  
  I'm endagering the mission, I shouldn't have posted.
  
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what...? by TedCheshireAcad · 2003-10-04 06:52 · Score: 2, Funny

So.....go....ICANN?

I thought we didn't like them?
1. Re:what...? by xanthines-R-yummy · 2003-10-04 06:56 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  ICANN, YouCANN, we all CANN for ICANN!
2. Re:what...? by Kierthos · 2003-10-04 07:11 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  We like them today, because they are hitting Verisign, who we hate more. Tomorrow they will do something stupid and we will hate ICANN again. Such is the way of things here on Slashdot.
  
  Kierthos
  
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W00T! by Lord_Dweomer · 2003-10-04 06:56 · Score: 3, Funny

Good news.....FINALLY! I swear to god...you read /. for a couple weeks.....and the news is so forboding sometimes that you think the headline tomorrow is going to be "APOCOLYPSE! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!". Then a story like this comes along and makes me cheer and gives me a glimmer of hope. Makes me feel like I'm manic depressive.
Damn the Goddess of Geekdom, she is a fickle mistriss!

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1. Re:W00T! by AllUsernamesAreGone · 2003-10-04 07:28 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Hey, don't worry about it - if slashdot DID run a "APOCOLYPSE! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!" story, it'd be denounced as a corporate plot, we'd get a dupe and then it'd turn out that the story was actually exaggerated and it is really only going to be a problem for somewhere nobody cares much about, like Utah...
They'll be back... by PSaltyDS · 2003-10-04 06:57 · Score: 3, Funny

From the article: "We will accede to the request while we explore all of our options." or, "All night lawyer party at the home of the VP for marketing!" Techs and engineers will not be invited.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

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Verisign vs. ICANN by r_glen · 2003-10-04 06:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Good news! I can now go back to hating both companies equally.
Oh, no by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-04 07:39 · Score: 1, Funny

Whatever you do, don't go to xoogle.com to test to see if Sitefinder is down yet.

IT'S A TRAP!
Re:Too little too late by carpe_noctem · 2003-10-04 08:00 · Score: 2, Funny

Same here. But I only plan to register .cx domains. ;P

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the REAL verisign press release by taped2thedesk · 2003-10-04 09:15 · Score: 3, Funny

Dear Internet User, In an effort to comply with ICANN's request, we have shut down site finder. Instead, the wildcard dns entry will now point to goatse.cx. We hope you find our new "non-registry" service useful, and look forward to your comments, which can also be submitted at goatse.cx. With Love, Verisign
Re:Too little too late by GomezAdams · 2003-10-04 09:44 · Score: 1, Funny

Me too. I've already made the move so that next year when my registration date is up I'll switch over to my hosting company's domain registration service. Versign lied to me last renewal period about why I had to re-up with them. So screw Verisign. And screw SCO while I'm venting. Gomez

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Re:Verisign.... verispensive by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-04 22:55 · Score: 1, Funny

then you could use your spam as toilet paper -- cool beans!