I work in the Pennsylvania customer service office of Network Solutions. Today an email went out site wide followed shortly thereafter by another email entreating us to ignore and delete the email. That it couldn't be verified as valid. Here's the email:
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:59:05 -0400 From: "[deleted]" Subject: FW: Site Finder Update To: "'[deleted]@mac.com'" Original-recipient: rfc822;[deleted]@mac.com
-----Original Message----- From: Lewis, Rusty Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 3:16 PM To: vs-global Subject: Site Finder Update
Dear Colleagues,
I wanted to let you know the latest information on the Site Finder service VeriSign launched recently to improve the experience for Internet users browsing the Web.
This morning we received a formal request from ICANN asking us to shut down the Site Finder service. Reluctantly, we will accede to the request while we investigate our options with this service. Today we are sending a letter to ICANN and issuing a press release stating that while we don't believe ICANN has authority over non-registry services, such as Site Finder, in the interests of working with the technical community we will temporarily suspend the service.
This debate is really about innovation. Site Finder is an innovative service that improves the browsing experience for millions of users by replacing frustrating error messages that offer no useful information with a consistent Web page that offers the user searching assistance. Through yesterday, Site Finder has been used more than 40 million times by Internet users to get where they want to go online.
We have worked closely with the technical community since its launch. On September 23, we established a Technical Review Panel comprised of Internet community leaders to help gather and analyze feedback about Site Finder. That panel will assist us in determine the next immediate steps, as well as the long-term implementation of Site Finder.
As we continue to determine the next steps for Site Finder, we will keep you informed about developments. If you have any questions about Site Finder, don't hesitate to e-mail me.
Regards,
Rusty Lewis
Now I don't know if this email was fake or not but judging from the recent articles in the news supporting the contention that they intend to temporarily suspend SitefFinder I'd say this email was sent to the wrong group by mistake here at Network Solutions.
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I work in the Pennsylvania customer service office of Network Solutions. Today an email went out site wide followed shortly thereafter by another email entreating us to ignore and delete the email. That it couldn't be verified as valid. Here's the email:
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:59:05 -0400
From: "[deleted]"
Subject: FW: Site Finder Update
To: "'[deleted]@mac.com'"
Original-recipient: rfc822;[deleted]@mac.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Lewis, Rusty
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 3:16 PM
To: vs-global
Subject: Site Finder Update
Dear Colleagues,
I wanted to let you know the latest information on the Site Finder service VeriSign launched recently to improve the experience for Internet users browsing the Web.
This morning we received a formal request from ICANN asking us to shut down the Site Finder service. Reluctantly, we will accede to the request while we investigate our options with this service. Today we are sending a letter to ICANN and issuing a press release stating that while we don't believe ICANN has authority over non-registry services, such as Site Finder, in the interests of working with the technical community we will temporarily suspend the service.
This debate is really about innovation. Site Finder is an innovative service that improves the browsing experience for millions of users by replacing frustrating error messages that offer no useful information with a consistent Web page that offers the user searching assistance. Through yesterday, Site Finder has been used more than 40 million times by Internet users to get where they want to go online.
We have worked closely with the technical community since its launch. On September 23, we established a Technical Review Panel comprised of Internet community leaders to help gather and analyze feedback about Site Finder. That panel will assist us in determine the next immediate steps, as well as the long-term implementation of Site Finder.
As we continue to determine the next steps for Site Finder, we will keep you informed about developments. If you have any questions about Site Finder, don't hesitate to e-mail me.
Regards,
Rusty Lewis
Now I don't know if this email was fake or not but judging from the recent articles in the news supporting the contention that they intend to temporarily suspend SitefFinder I'd say this email was sent to the wrong group by mistake here at Network Solutions.