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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?"

4 of 376 comments (clear)

  1. Why is a profit-company in such a central role? by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is .org and .com! When does Verisign's lease expire? Can ICANN turn over the license to someone else?

  2. the sooner by narkotix · · Score: 5, Interesting

    they take .com and .net out of verisign's hands the better. Its just unfortunate that this will misinform new people AND generate more needless traffic because of the returned page. Did the search page ever have preferences to certain websites? or was it truly independent? If i typed in server software would it bring up xxx penis extensions because some idiot put in metatags or would it bring up true results?

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  3. when is DDOS not a DDOS ? by mr_walrus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    can someone be blamed for doing a denial of service
    to a site that Does Not Exist ?

    how about some scripts to pump out requests to a fairly
    limited set of known to be Non-Existent domains...

    could this possibly cause an interesting burden on Verishit's servers?

    would the name lookups themselves affect DNS too badly to
    cause innocent collateral damage? i'd hope caching of a limited
    set of non-existent names would avoid much dns load.

    just curious, academic musing and all that...

  4. It very well might be. by demonic-halo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Remember the times when microsoft and SCO had to change their web address to side step being attacked by DDOS for various worms?

    If site finder goes up.. All falied DDOS going to old domain names will end up taking those attacks. Guess verisign will be the official decoy for outdated worms. =)