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McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation'
psimeonbeta2 continues:"Additionally (shades of Darl) he suggests that an anti-capitalism animus is behind the resistance to sitefinder. This despite the known problems that sitefinder caused and despite the fact that breaking the DNS standards may have constituted a breach of contract on Verisign's part. Resistance, he concludes, must be due to some sort of techno-religious fervor.
While Verisign's chutzpah certainly doesn't rise to fiaSCO levels, I find the similar tones in spinning the issues at hand to be truly disturbing. Not only did Verisign screw us by changing how the internet works at a fundamental level, now they purport to be irritated that we didn't thank them for the favor! At least in this case the good guys(cherish this moment, ICANN!) won."
Internet Explorer can do that with MSN search and it usually works well enough. (Too bad you can't use google instead...or can you? I don't have their toolbar since I don't use IE.) .com registrars as an added bonus.
Site Finder, however, takes EVERY invalid domain request from every kind of program on every platform, and breaks the DNS standard, with screwing over the other
Sometimes I misspell URLs and I actually *like* having a service that attempts to find the site I'm looking for.
So set your browser to do that. Most of the popular browsers will, and you can even chose your search engine.
No need to force that behaivior on every user of every Internet service. The Internet is not (just) the web.
It's called Google.
You can use google, believe it or not. Search sidebar (Ctrl-E), Customize (Alt-Z or toolbar option on top of search sidebar), Autosearch Settings.
Dock yourself one sys-admin point for unneccessary use of a wildcard.
Slackware, what else when it must be secure, stable, and easy?
You just paid someone else to register it with them.
Ah, the joys of a monopoly.
ICANN's contract with Verisign said they could only hold 5,000 domains themselves. It's a lot, but perhaps not unreasonable. This modification by Verisign effectively gave them a very large number of domains (limited only by the maximum allowable size for a DNS query). Although, honestly, I was amazed at Verisigns self restraint on not putting a "Buy this domain" link on every sitefinder page. Guess they decided they couldn't get away with that... Not yet, at least.
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
You can change IE's default to Google with this
I mainly use Mozilla and I use the Google toolbar from here.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
The SiteFinder fiasco was the final impetus for me to remove my last couple of domains from NetSol's hands to a more internet friendly domain registrar. Apart from saving me money in the process I'm pleased I finally got off my ass and voted with my wallet!
A little planning goes a long way...
They took something that worked to a well-established specification that's been around for decades and broke it. That is not good nor is it innovative.
But don't take my word for it. I will defer to this guy to elaborate and this guy to explain how stuff broke.
As many people have mentioned, you do not alter the functionality of core, Internet functionality in the global domain at the behest of some fools from marketing. If you want to make a change to how things work, propose a change or start your own network. Don't fuck with a service that billions of people use and depend on.
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