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ICANN Study Slams Verisign

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-surprising dept.

Dinglenuts writes "ICANN has just released what I'm sure is a completely neutral and unbiased report, condemning Verisign's Sitefinder service for running afoul of 'community standards and caus[ing] harm to individual users and enterprises.' Seeing as how ICANN is currently being sued by Verisign for making them take down Sitefinder, this opinion can be considered less than revolutionary."

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  1. *cough* by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Funny
    If this isn't the pot calling the kettle black. Verisign does it for money. ICANN just does it for the sheer pleasure of wielding power and being assholes.

    I knew Jeremy Porter when he was on ICANN, and that man is a total prick.

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  2. Dilemma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    ICANN bad, Verisign bad, which side are we on?

  3. They're like squabbling children by JosKarith · · Score: 3, Funny

    ICANN and Verisign are behaving in the same way as a pair of spoilt toddlers. What the world needs is for their teacher to come along and give the pair of them a slap

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    1. Re:They're like squabbling children by mikechant · · Score: 2, Funny

      If there's any leg-slapping to be done we should call in some Lederhosen-clad Germans. They have a lot of experience in this matter.

  4. Who to side with? by ThatWeasel · · Score: 1, Funny

    ICANN is a mess. Verisign is doing things that are wrong. I guess I side with Microsoft... Oh crap. Um...

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  5. Re:They're still trying to d this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For most ordinary people port 80 is in fact the entire intarweb. Anything involving other ports is fraught with great danger and great pains must be taken to ensure that the hoi polloi are not aware of the existence of ports other than 80.

    Even knowledge of the existence of port 80, IP addresses, domains, RFCs, etc., etc. (in short anything a geek understands and knows like the palm of his hand) must be utterly and completely denied them for their own safety and for the preservation of geekdom.

    Anything short of preventing their complete ignorance in these matters will lead to complete chaos, madness, and the sure and steady diminishment of the geek mystique.

    YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

  6. Re:The dangers of money and power by blane.bramble · · Score: 1, Funny

    Enough IT guys switch, and then who cares about all those .Com[mercial] groups anyway.

    The badgers do!
  7. It was google dot... by infernalC · · Score: 2, Funny
    co.uk
    , you insensitive clod!
  8. Re:The dangers of money and power by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    ICANN is important because there's a website watching them? There's websites for watching asian girls pee on each other too but I'd hardly call it important to the existence of the internet. (Then again, it might be the very reason for the same...)

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