Another Lawsuit Filed Against VeriSign, Who Still Refuses To Back Down
from the verisign-everywhere... dept
It seems you can't open up a news page these days without seeing yet another story about VeriSign and their attempt to hijack all misdirected internet traffic. Now that just about everyone is urging them to turn off the system, VeriSign has said they see no reason to do that. Instead, they say they're putting together a committee of "internet leaders" to review the service. Say what? The next time I break the law, do I get to pick a jury of my friends as well? Meanwhile, a second lawsuit has been filed against the service - this time by popular registrar GoDaddy. The suit asks for an injunction forcing VeriSign to stop their SiteFinder hijacking service. Finally, Michael Geist is blaming ICANN for the mess - and everyone who let ICANN become the disaster it is today.
Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
Reader Comments
Subscribe: RSS
View by: Time | Thread
my comment from elsewhere...
I just spoke with a nice secretary lady whom told me that she was 'sad to hear' that I, "an investor", was going to sell my "2000 shares" of Verisign first thing in the morning due to their horrible wildcard DNS policies.
When I asked why they are doing this, she told me it was a "marketing decision" and that "somebody in the marketing department" thought it up.
She said that I was the first person she had heard complain about it, though she had read somewhere that it was "controversial".
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Blocking?
My home ISP (Adelphia) used to go to Site Finder, now it goes to the normal "Server Not Found" page.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]