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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. They're still trying to d this? by ErikTheRed · · Score: 4, Informative

    After this whole thing started I simply had my dns cache resolve verisign.com addresses through my local dns server... problem solved. In fact, I'd forgotten about the whole thing...

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  2. Re:The dangers of money and power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    ICANN is so important there's even a site solely devoted to watching it, icannwatch.org
    Our premise can be simply stated: The Internet is a global resource of incalculable value, and nothing is of greater importance to its future than the way in which ICANN performs its role as manager of the Domain Name System. All Internet users worldwide have a stake in these ongoing events, and our job is to serve as a central point of reference, a kind of hill overlooking the often-chaotic information landscape, from which anyone seeking a better understanding of these developments can survey the ever-changing terrain.
  3. It's the SSAC, stupid! by bathmann · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of Icann which issued the report not the Board of Icann! This committee is literally filled with top-notch DNS experts (see here: Members of the Committee) and I don't think they give a rat's ass about Icann's issues with VeriSign. Btw, 2 VS employees are also members of the SSAC...

    Now keep on flaming!

  4. Not good tone in the article. by Performer+Guy · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about a bit of ballance, remember that ICANN is *supposed* to police this stuff, and Verisign's actions were just unbelievably bad. Verisign are suing ICANN for finally doing its job, even if you don't like ICANN you can't support Verisign in this.

  5. Re:Why does ICANN only have a problem with Verisig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    .cx and the like are national tlds and therefore not icanns problem

    as for .museum that sounds like a crappy new tld that noone gives a fuck about

  6. Re:Uh oh! Alternat Root Servers and UN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Fortunately the Internet is designed to survive even the UN. The UN like ICANN forget two important facts, we could go all the way back to IP addresses and not use DNS - or much more likely start TLDs outsie the current framework. This is most likely and in fact is already being done. In reality, due to ICANN and Verisign's "muscle control" there are already alternate root servers serving up TLDs - some can be found at: http://www.fact-index.com/a/al/alternate_dns_root. html Each time ICANN and Verisign roadblock good TLD initiatives by competative to Verisign companies the alternative DNS structure grows.

  7. Re:Why does ICANN only have a problem with Verisig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the only reason that verisign controls the '.' zone via the root servers. The .cx and .museum servers DOES NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO REDIRECT ALL REQUESTS FOR ANY ADDRESS TO THEIR SERVICE!