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Re: VeriSign Wildcard Service Brings Call To Stop, Lawsuit
Posted by: Jay Lyman 2003-09-22 10:08:54

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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.

Re: VeriSign Wildcard Service Brings Call To Stop, Lawsuit
Posted by: theyoshi 2003-09-23 07:44:00 In reply to: Jay Lyman

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:
sitefinder@verisign-grs.com