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Verisign Considers Restarting Sitefinder
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?"
And firebird^H^H^H^Hfox does it for google ... it could be argued that's even worse than Microsoft, since there you get shot off on an I'm Feeling Lucky, while microsoft gives you a list of close matches and lets you choose one. I've had too many times when I mistyped a URL, got shot off to another page entirely, and then had to go back and do a "google URL" to find what I was looking for.
If you don't like it, change the setting. Go to about:config, and either change keyword.url to something you find more congenial than Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky", or just flip keyword.enabled to false to turn the feature off altogether.
I welcome the day when Verisign pulls this stunt. At that point, the admins (who control all the IP blocks) will simply reassign ALL of their DNS servers to point somewhere else. Verisign becomes moot, goes out of business, and good riddance! In the same way that the human brain reroutes around tissue damaged by trauma, the internet will reroute around these braindead marketing droids, and leave them twisting in the wind...
.com registry with false IPs, well, at some point .com will stop working, and Verisign will have their monopoly revoked by force. I think a public flogging for the idiots responsible will serve as a fair warning not to monkey around with critical infrastructure for personal gain.
If Verisign tries to poision the