Verisign Implementing SiteFinder On .cc

An anonymous reader writes "Community outrage forced VeriSign to kill SiteFinder, but they vowed to bring it back. Looks like SiteFinder is alive and well in the .cc TLD. Just enter your own favorite unregistered name to check it out."

Comments

Re:Misleading? No, just wrong.

[base3]

Yes, but it's not sitefinder and it's not verisign.

I suppose that's why the words "A Verisign company" appear under the eNIC logo?

huh?

[theCoder]

Maybe it doesn't work anymore, or my ISP blocks it, but I'm not getting any site-finder like results in the .cc TLD:

$ host an-unregistered-name.cc
Host an-unregistered-name.cc not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
$ host alskdfjsldkafjdsalkjskld.cc
Host alskdfjsldkafjdsalkjskld.cc not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Re:huh?

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

It's your ISP, thankfully still implementing SiteFinder blocks. Cox Internet gives:

ibook:~ geoffrey$ host an-unregistered-name.cc
an-unregistered-name.cc has address 206.253.214.102
ibook:~ geoffrey$ host alskdfjsldkafjdsalkjskld.cc
alskdfjsldkafjdsalkjs kld.cc has address 206.253.214.102

Anyway, the results are not SiteFinder, just "buy this domain or e-mail the registrant". Besides, .cc isn't an autoresolution or even a relatively common domain, which was the problem with SiteFinder.

Incidentally, http://206.253.214.102/ is a notable example of not checking your input string (in this case, the HTTP Host field) before parsing it.

CTFL = MOD DOWN

[CustomFort]

Moderators, at least CTFL (click the fscking links), even if you don't RTFA. eNIC is a VeriSign Corporation (see http://www.enic.cc/).

As far as I can tell, they are justing grabbing free business off of this service, and deserve to be shamed. How is this different from SiteFinder?

Good for a laugh

[aztektum]

I typed in sitefinderislame.cc and it gives me a page that says "Welcome to your new home on the web!"

It's Not New

[Jeagoss]

Over the past few years, I have helped clients register .cc domains by typing in domain.cc and if that page came up, I knew it wasn't registered. ENIC has been using this blank page service for a while. The page has been changed a few times, but, it has always been pretty much the same "Welcome to Your Future Home", or "Buy this unredistered domain" pitch. Why is it that someone just now noticed? Then, just because by change ENIC happens to be a subsidiary (or however you spell it) of Verisign, this service is automatically dubbed "SiteFinder". I find this very sad.

(Get out the fire extinguishers, tin foil hats, and flame throwers. This one might catch on fire and explode in contempt.)