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Verisign Recommended to Keep .com & .net

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-mine-now dept.

An Anonymous SAIC Employee writes "The 'independent' company hired by ICANN to advise them on who should run the .com and .net registry has recommended that Verisign (fact sheet) should be chosen to continue to run the registry. Is it any surprise? Telcordia was owned by SAIC (Fact Sheet) during the time the study was conducted. SAIC bought Telcordia (fact sheet) (then Bellcore) in Nov. 1997 and sold it March 15, 2005. Network Solutions was bought by SAIC in 1995 and sold in 2000. Also, Telcordia worked with Verisign on the ENUM project. Is the fox guarding the hen house?"

2 of 147 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Whats all the fuss about? by Electroly · · Score: 4, Informative

    Correction: VeriSign directed NXDOMAIN ("domain does not exist") DNS errors to their own search engines.

  2. Re:Whats all the fuss about? by RollingThunder · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is NOT a trivial correction, either.

    The GP makes it sound like it affected only web access. This was certainly not the case.

    As an example, all sorts of DNS based tests around if a sending domain really existed started failing, removing one of the spam-blocker's methods of determining if a message is legit (IE: reject from unknown domains).

    NXDOMAIN is in the spec for a reason, and Verisign hardly even got their hand slapped for breaking it.