From: Mike Hunter (mhunter_at_uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 12:01:45 PDT
On Sep 17, "Greg Small" wrote:
> Michael,
>
> At 10:36 AM 9/17/2003 -0700, Michael Sinatra wrote:
> >> The link you gave goes on and on about anti-competitive practices but is
> >a
> >> little short on comparison of practices of other companies that would be
> >> necessary to single out VeriSign as an "evil empire".
> >The outright violation of DNS protocols is enough for me.
>
> Without specific knowledge for the DNS protocol details, I presume that you
> mean returning a positive response for for an unknown host/domain. If so
> then probably VeriSign decided that since the Internet community has not
> made
> much effort to stop such practices by others, that the practice has become a
> de facto accepted practice or certainly a competitive disadvantage. By
> doing
> it themselves they are forcing attention to an issue that is being ignored.
I don't see how this is going to address the "practices by others",
assuming that you're referring to typo-squatting. People can still
typo-squat under this new regime....verisign has made themselves the
typo-squatter for all addresses not specifically squatted by others.
Mike
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