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Verisign Sues ICANN Over SiteFinder
camusflage writes "Yahoo's running a story about VeriSign suing ICANN for holding up Sitefinder. Choice quote from VeriSign: 'This brazen attempt by ICANN to assume 'regulatory power' over VeriSign's business is a serious abuse of ICANN's technical coordination function.'"
In Corporate America, Verisign sues ICANN!
Hello Kettle, I'm Pot. Would you like to step inside my glass house?
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
I'm utterly dumbfounded! These are two of the internet's finest and most reputable entities! How can either be involved in any kind of abuse or malpractice? There must be some kind of mistake...
Huh? Oh. You want the article next door. Yeah, having two MS articles in one day will do that to ya.
What if other companies did similar things? What if companies involved with the stock market used their insider info to give them a step-up when it comes to which stocks to buy and sell? Yeah, its a bad idea. Same here.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
because you are preventing us from being a monopoly! And that is sooooo unfair to us!
Really - this is the kind of argument I would expect from a spammer that doesn't want to be restricted in their ability to serve unwanted ads to increasingly frustrated recipients.
... addToListOfEvilCompanies("Verisign");
Oh, wait. I get spam from Verisign (and their subsidiaries) all the time.
From the article:
"Working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by ducks," said Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president for government relations. "It takes forever, it doesn't make sense, and in the end we're still dead in the water."
Yeah. Nibbled to death by ducks. That sounds good.
Mallard Ducks.
Well, we can dream, at least...
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Verisign: I can ICANN: U can't
Free XBox, PS2
ICANN: Turn of your Sitefinder, or we'll give .com to someone else. And you'll be left as nothing but a dead registrar...
Verisign: ICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANN!
its patched to block their bullshit site. Besides, if verislime gets sitefinder back up, i am sure the script kiddies will GLEEFULLY dos the hell out of that bitch. (hint hint)
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
No; it's a cheap way to make yourself an easy target for DoS.
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
"We have prepared a response to verisign."
"*ahem* Fuck you."
"You may direct your questions towards the wall behind me."
Is there some sort of contest for the most hated corporation going on between Microsoft, SCO, and Verisign?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the new and improved Axis of Evil.
Work sucked, until it became unemployment, when it became slightly more tolerable. -Tet
"Working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by ducks," said Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president for government relations. "It takes forever, it doesn't make sense, and in the end we're still dead in the water."
Sounds like the last domain transfer I did away from Versign.
"Working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by ducks," said Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president for government relations. "It takes forever, it doesn't make sense, and in the end we're still dead in the water."
I wonder if Tom Galvin and Darl spend late nights together working on clever metaphors to use in press releases related to their lawsuits...
"To lead the people, you must walk behind them"
Viscous? I would call Verisign's behavior abrasive, not adhesive.
Is there some sort of contest for the most hated corporation going on between Microsoft, SCO, and Verisign?
I hope that Verisign gets involved. The anti Microsoft and SCO comments need to be spaced out a bit more then they have been as of late.
elegant legislation
Isn't that an oxymoron these days, you know, like military intelligence or jumbo shrimp?
everything in moderation
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It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
Or, it could be the Internet Naming and Numbering Agency for Good Addresses, Delegated Domains, Aliases and Displayed Archives to Vehemently Investigate Dispute Allegations.
There. INNAGADDADAVIDA. Has a catchy ring to it, hmm?
Random Musings
no, it's time to think of nuke the US. enough problems spewing out of those measly 300 million peeps for the world to stick to it. Verisign is just another ticket on the queuebooth.
Once again, the "THE INTERNET IS ONLY THE WEB" mindset that low-grade tech journalism seems to be stuck in is preventing people from realizing the destructive nature of something as profound as adding a wildcard to major TLDs
Remote ATMs better not be using DNS...
IANA is subassigned from ICANN.
So that's where all these IANALs come from! I was wondering that.
Fellowship 9/11
Favourite CEO?
Now you're making me think. Just last week, I'd have said Darl McBride, but now you've totally thrown me off-course!
Before that Steve Ballmer/Bill Gates were probably number one, but now...
The more important question is "Who will be next"
Steve Jobs suing companies for using translucent blue plastic?
Maybe Intel will sue Via for making Pentium-compatible chipsets.
Who knows, maybe Slashdot will sue EZboard for creating unlicensed web-forums!
perl -e 'print "Just another Perl newbie\n";'