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McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation'

simeonbeta2 writes "Mark McLaughlin, Senior VP at Verisign, has an editorial up on news.com. McLaughlin casts the debate over sitefinder in terms of 'innovation' versus the status quo and threatens that stifling 'innovation' will lead to a weaker internet." There's more -- read on below.

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."

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  1. Mark should... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ..have his lower horn removed.

  2. YOU'lL NEVER MAKE A NIGGER OUT OF ME! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    my WHITE BLOOD is PURE, fuckers! It'll be a cold day in HELL before I become one of those FUCKING SHITSKINS! you hear me, FAGS? I"ll have you kn--- AUGGGGHHHHHHHH nooooo ownownfoa fo roajj BLAHhahhbababab ...... Muh dick, muh dick! yess massa! I he'p you wit the groceries!

    (and with that the nigger rays were shot at the redneck, turning him into a filthy subhuman negroid)

  3. Re:Utter Crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If someone types in a bad domain name, they should be called a moron. Man, I hate it when people make mistakes. We should expect better in this country of our citizens. Any American who abuses our Internet by making typos should have their self-esteem damaged.

  4. lets think of it neutrally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If we think of the SiteFinder plan neutrally, granted, Verisign is offending most internet users and probably scerwing up the internet. But we should also think in terms of the average internet user - which is Joe Click-a-mouse. The internet is not all about linux, unix, code etc. It is also about usability. And if we think in this fashion it appears plausible that, *i might be wrong*, sitefinder might help people find the site they want?

    tell me, how else would they find what they want if they dont have a complete URL? Suppose you had a wrong URL or did not remember the right URL? How would you find out the right one? Its impossible without sitefinder.

  5. Shitefinder... by nigels · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Verisign Business Model:

    Embrace, extend, extinguish...

  6. niggers aren't people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... so why did we give them rights?

    -- A proud KDE user (KKK fetish fuck)

    ROMANS ARE GODS

    COWS R SEXY

    (+5 Insightful, +5 The Truth, +5 Niggersense)

  7. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    we welcome our internet overlords.

  8. Re:I kind of like SiteFinder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Lots of bluster in that post, but not much substance.

    Yes, there's now no longer any bad domain names because they all resolve to either an existing domain or Verisign. And this hurts YOU how?

    Oh, it doesn't match the useless NXDOMAIN spec, so it's bad. Gotcha. That's not knee-jerk at all.

  9. Re:Look at it from both sides... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey you fuck face, cock-smoking, nigger-wanna-be, cunt-smelling piece of dogshit,

    Some questions are DUMB.

  10. IDP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Verisign has violated the fundamental trust needed for it's role as DNS root administrator. Their roots can no longer be trusted. So it's time to remove them from the root.hints files and stop using them.

    And maybe we should start debating if Verisign has earned the Internet Death Penalty.

  11. Re:Innovation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    have you ever noticed how goatse.cx takes you to goatse.cx?

  12. Come on, that's funny, FAGGOT MODERATORS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What the fuck are you dumb faggots smoking?! The grandparent post was phenomonal. Get the stick out of your collective ass and recognize talent when you see it!

  13. Re:The Internet Will Break... by LadyLucky · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, technically he's correct. The internet didn't break. Well, maybe that's because somewhere upstream of me someone's blocking the sitefinder service. So there was no breakage! Yay!

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