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Verisign Implementing SiteFinder On .cc

Posted by timothy on Monday October 4, 2004 @01:09PM 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."

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Re:Misleading? No, just wrong. by base3 · 2004-10-04 13:18 · 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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Re:Misleading? No, just wrong. by Uberdog · 2004-10-04 17:20 · 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.