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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.'"

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  1. Sorry, but I have no choice by Adam9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Corporate America, Verisign sues ICANN!

    1. Re:Sorry, but I have no choice by scooby111 · · Score: 5, Funny

      In related news: Enron Executives sue SEC.

      "This brazen attempt by the SEC to assume 'regulatory power' over Enron's business is a serious abuse of the SEC's oversight function.'", said one insider.

    2. Re:Sorry, but I have no choice by mino · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ahhh, the old slashdot tradition of whacky, unbelievable, totally impossible April Fools' Day stories. I never get tired of them! Every year, Slashdot produce stories so totally ridiculous that...

      What? What? What's today's date!?!? Oh dear god no...

  2. Wow. by JesseL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hello Kettle, I'm Pot. Would you like to step inside my glass house?

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    "Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
  3. Verisign? ICANN? Abuse? by erroneus · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  4. Thats funny.. by Renraku · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
  5. We're suing you by mishehu · · Score: 5, Funny

    because you are preventing us from being a monopoly! And that is sooooo unfair to us!

  6. Same song, different bird by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    Oh, wait. I get spam from Verisign (and their subsidiaries) all the time. ... addToListOfEvilCompanies("Verisign");

    1. Re:Same song, different bird by sweetooth · · Score: 4, Funny

      ... Error: duplicate entry found for "Verisign"

      They were on the list of evil companies before now.

  7. Ducks. Yeah. by RobertB-DC · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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    Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
    1. Re:Ducks. Yeah. by SmackCrackandPot · · Score: 3, Funny

      It should have read:

      "Working the ICANN process is like being in deep space with a broken hyperdrive and a pair of arguing Wookies" 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."

    2. Re:Ducks. Yeah. by bugnuts · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought that quote was hilarious, but how about the other side of the coin?

      Making a typo in the Verisign process is like being beaten to death by spam.

  8. Duel by savagedome · · Score: 5, Funny

    Verisign: I can ICANN: U can't

  9. ICANN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  10. fuck em, use the newest bind by Indy1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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)

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    Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
  11. Re:I'd would say... by Spudley · · Score: 5, Funny

    No; it's a cheap way to make yourself an easy target for DoS.

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    (Spudley Strikes Again!)
  12. Our response to verisign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We have prepared a response to verisign."

    "*ahem* Fuck you."

    "You may direct your questions towards the wall behind me."

  13. Pots and Kettles by Tajarix · · Score: 4, Funny


    "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.

  14. Working with... by OzPhIsH · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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...

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    "To lead the people, you must walk behind them"

    1. Re:Working with... by Phroggy · · Score: 3, Funny

      I wonder if Tom Galvin and Darl spend late nights together working on clever metaphors to use in press releases related to their lawsuits...

      No, I'm sure they hire people to be clever for them.

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      $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
      $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
  15. Re:My prediction... by Mudd+Chick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Viscous? I would call Verisign's behavior abrasive, not adhesive.

  16. Re:a US-gov-controlled internet? by randyest · · Score: 4, Funny

    elegant legislation

    Isn't that an oxymoron these days, you know, like military intelligence or jumbo shrimp?

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  17. Re:My prediction... by IthnkImParanoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    if(viscous.meansSameAs("oily") && !viscous.meansSameAs("adhesive")
    {
    this.parent.g etTheeTo("http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/ dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=viscous&x=0&y=0" );
    }

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    It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
  18. Re:A True Battle of Evils by Anml4ixoye · · Score: 4, Funny
    Or, it could become the Internet Naming and Numbering Agency -- or INNA.

    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?

  19. Re::rolleyes: by Bombcar · · Score: 4, Funny

    IANA is subassigned from ICANN.

    So that's where all these IANALs come from! I was wondering that.