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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."

13 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Misleading? No, just wrong. by base3 · · Score: 4, Informative
    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?

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  2. huh? by theCoder · · Score: 3, Informative

    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)

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    1. Re:huh? by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 3, Informative
      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.
    2. Re:huh? by Steamhead · · Score: 2, Interesting

      dan$ host asdjahfljkahfkasdhflsd.cc
      asdjahfljkahfkasdhflsd. cc has address 206.253.214.102

      *sigh* I if .cc becomes a problem, I guess it will become like .biz and be blacklisted on my mail client.

    3. Re:huh? by Piquan · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Look at the NANOG archives from around the time of the original SiteFinder debacle. There's a patch. Paul doesn't like it, but he wrote it anyway.

    4. 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.

  3. Dear Slashdot, by jeffy124 · · Score: 2, Funny

    YABT. YHL. HAND.

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  4. CTFL = MOD DOWN by CustomFort · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?

  5. 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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  6. Good for a laugh by aztektum · · Score: 2, Informative

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

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  7. It's Not New by Jeagoss · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.)

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  8. Re:buffer overflow by TheOnlyCoolTim · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just go to http://.cc

    Tim

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  9. 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.