Consternation over VeriSign’s plan to redirect mistyped or nonexistent domain name requests has progressed to a call from the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to suspend the service and a $100 million lawsuit from a company claiming damages from it. VeriSign’s new “wildcard” service, called SiteFinder, is intended to return useful information rather than the standard domain-not-found error message when Internet users type in a misspelled or unregistered domain name.
I do not feel my decisions can be made for me and my web navigation railroaded into a "service" that involves unrelated searches so Verisign can increase their profit. You should not want this either, it sets bad precident for the future of web navigation. Tell them your opinion: [email protected]
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VeriSign Wildcard Service Brings Call To Stop, Lawsuit
Posted by: Jay Lyman September 22, 2003 09:52 AMConsternation over VeriSign’s plan to redirect mistyped or nonexistent domain name requests has progressed to a call from the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to suspend the service and a $100 million lawsuit from a company claiming damages from it. VeriSign’s new “wildcard” service, called SiteFinder, is intended to return useful information rather than the standard domain-not-found error message when Internet users type in a misspelled or unregistered domain name.
Tell them your opinion:
[email protected]