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Verisign Implementing SiteFinder On .cc

Posted by timothy on from the flanking-maneuver dept.

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."

3 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Spyware by PurpleFloyd · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It differs in four ways:
    • You can't not get it. Spyware usually isn't installed willingly, but there are steps you can take to prevent getting spyware on your system. This is located on Verislime's servers and can't be avoided.
    • You can't remove it. Spyware, once installed, can usually be removed and the system put back to the way it was. While it can be difficult, it's usually possible for you to put your computer back to the way it was before you were infected. With this, the only way to remove it is to convince Verislime that it's in their best interest to get rid of it.
    • It represents abuse of what's supposed to be a public resource. This is like a utility company with a government monopoly selling your name to mailing lists: they've been granted power, and they're abusing it for profit.
    • Finally, and most importantly, it breaks DNS. The ability to check for a valid domain is an important spam-detection tool. With this, any query to DNS for a nonexistent .cc domain will return as if it were valid. Sitefinder breaks this, just so Verislime can get a few extra bucks of profit.
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    That's it. I'm no longer part of Team Sanity.
  2. Re:Misleading? No, just wrong. by Uberdog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A subsidiary of a company is not the actual company itself, it's just a [front the company can use to make the public think it's] a peon with which to attribute blame.

  3. Re:huh? by brunes69 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    No, the problem with sitefinder is that it returns bogus, corrupted DNS information, which breaks a hell of a lot of 3rd party software that follows the RFCs.