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Verisign Considers Restarting Sitefinder

Posted by timothy on from the try-try-again dept.

Rosco P. Coltrane writes "The Washington Post reports that VeriSign is considering reviving its infamous search engine. 'Site Finder was not controversial with users' says VeriSign's Tom Galvin, and VeriSign 'assured ICANN that it would give 60 to 90 days' warning to resolve any remaining technological problems.' Such as leaving the DNS service alone for example?"

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  1. Outsourcing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think we might be able to outsource VeriSign to India?

  2. Not controversial by ralmeida · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Site Finder was not controversial with users'

    It wasn't controversial at all. Everybody agree it was a bad idea.

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  3. Comical Ali at work.. by Channard · · Score: 5, Funny
    'Site Finder was not controversial with users'

    And in other news, the US forces were crushed in Iraq, Mars Beagle did not go missing and has been transmitting pictures for many days, and these aren't the droids you're looking for.

  4. Re:And microsoft does this anyway to all windows u by mr_mozz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats a different issue entirely. Having a *browser* point you to a search engine is all well and good. You can modify this behaviour to suit yourself. But if the *internet* starts doing this stuff for you... well, it's not a pretty picture.

  5. An apology from the Washington Post by alien_blueprint · · Score: 4, Funny

    Galvin said that the continued opposition stems from "an ideological belief by a narrow section of the technological community who don't believe you should innovate the core infrastructure of the Internet."

    In our recent article a number of mistakes slipped past our content review processes. In this case "destroy" was incorrectly spelled "innovate". Also "ideological" clearly was meant be "correct". Likewise "narrow section" appeared instead of "all".

    We apologise for these errors and any confusion they might have caused.

  6. Re:Proof that some people never learn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those that repeat truisms are also forced to repeat them.

  7. Re:And microsoft does this anyway to all windows u by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's not as if you can choose to not use DNS

    Actually, you can. But Slashdot would be awkward when called "66.35.250.150, news for nerds, stuff that matters" instead...

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  8. Re:Proof that some people never learn by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 3, Funny

    `` Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it...''

    And, as jonadab put it, ``those who do study history are doomed to watch in frustration as it is unwittingly repeated by those who do not''

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  9. Re:Proof that some people never learn by glwtta · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maybe it's about time we saw the US taking up .us domains too...

    As soon as we figure out how to make everyone else use .them

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