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Verisign wreaks havoc on top level domain names
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Posted by: Canis Lupus
On Monday, VeriSign began to redirect domain lookups for misspelled or nonexistent names to its own site, a process that has confused Internet e-mail utilities and drawn angry denunciations of the company's business practices from frustrated network administrators. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company enjoys a government-granted monopoly as the master database administrator for .com and .net.
VeriSign's new policy is intended to generate more advertising revenue from additional visitors to its network of Web sites. But the change has had the side effect of rewiring a portion of the Internet that software designers always had expected to behave a certain way, snarling antispam mechanisms that check to see if the sender's domain exists, complicating the analysis of network problems, and possibly even polluting search engine results.
Full article can be found here.
So basically, any mistyped URL or even a simple typo automatically goes to a Verisign page ... well isn't that just dandy? That's like the biggest government-approved scam today... Expect advertising revenues to soar for Verisign when they start putting banners and pop-ups on those redirect pages 
Posted by: redwench
evil
Posted by: Canis Lupus
The bad thing about this is that anti-spam programs operate on the premise that if the email was sent from a site that doesn't exist (i.e. kinky@eajkghaejkr.com), then it gets rejected or filtered out ...
But now, since ANY .com or .net domain potentially exists thanks to Verisign's redirect, it really ****s up the whole process ... email spammers everywhere are rejoicing...
Posted by: Phate
Nice thinking there, Verisign. 
Posted by: chaosisreality
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Originally posted by Canis Lupus
The bad thing about this is that anti-spam programs operate on the premise that if the email was sent from a site that doesn't exist (i.e. kinky@eajkghaejkr.com), then it gets rejected or filtered out ...
But now, since ANY .com or .net domain potentially exists thanks to Verisign's redirect, it really ****s up the whole process ... email spammers everywhere are rejoicing...
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Really, what does verisign care about other problems they may occur .
They're drawing in more dough, and their happy...
Posted by: poolking
Here is the latest release from ICANN:
http://www.icann.org/correspondence...ard-22sep03.htm
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