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  Anonymous Coward, 3 Oct 2003 @ 11:40am

  
  

  I think this may be affecting Email too.....

  I accidently sent an Email to a non existant domain, and never received a bounce message.
  
  So I nslookup'ed the domain and it returned a Verisign server IP.
  
  I WHOIS'd the domain and found that it hadn't been registered.
  
  So does this mean that this Versign business means that Email won't even bounce anymore?!

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    Anonymous Coward, 3 Oct 2003 @ 11:44am

    
    

    Will break anti-spam too

    This means that some anti-spam measure will break to - like checking that mail is being sent from an existing domain.....

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    Mike (profile), 3 Oct 2003 @ 11:47am

    
    

    Re: I think this may be affecting Email too.....

    Apparently, it does indeed effect email.
    
    Some people were worried that now VeriSign basically gets to keep a collection of misaddressed emails and do whatever they want with them. They say (and it's probably true) that they have no use to keep such messages - but just the fact that it's possible is a bad thing.

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  Christopher Ambler, 3 Oct 2003 @ 11:52am

  
  

  Prediction: Verisign will politely decline

  My prediction is that Verisign will politely decline ICANN's "request" and suggest that further study is needed before they terminate a commercial product. We shall see. Christopher

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  Beck, 3 Oct 2003 @ 12:55pm

  
  

  New Registry Manager

  Verisign has violated the trust placed in them and the resulting consequence should be their removal from that position of trust.
  
  I think that a new non-profit organization should be created to manage the .com and .net registries, and that task should be taken away from Verisign. Domain registration fees should cover the cost of such an organization.
  
  I think the big problem would be the hand-over of the registry database from Verisign to the new authority. Their incompetence and/or willful negligence could create a mess.

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  Beck, 3 Oct 2003 @ 1:03pm

  
  

  SiteFinder Benefit

  With all of the talk about the problems caused by SiteFinder, there is a benefit:
  
  I noticed that when a visitor hits my web site when coming from SiteFinder, the Referer HTTP header shows me the mistyped URL that originally sent the visitor to SiteFinder. I can now generate a list of common mistypings of my domain name, and if my web site were anything important I could register those names before Verisign or someone else hijacks my traffic.

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