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Verisign to halt 'redirect' service
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Posted by: Canis Lupus
Reported two weeks ago, we were treated to the news that Verisign was going to redirect domain lookups for misspelled or nonexistent names to its Sitefinder service, which caused an uproar among network administrators and consumers alike.
Today, Verisign, under heavy pressure from ICANN, has sent word that it will be shutting down their SiteFinder service.
In a letter sent to VeriSign on Friday, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey told the domain name registrar that it had until 6 p.m. PDT Saturday to comply with a request to take down the SiteFinder service. ICANN is the nonprofit organization responsible for administering Internet addresses.
Site Finder, introduced Sept. 15, includes a "wildcard" feature that redirects all misspelled or unassigned .com and .net domain names to a search page owned by VeriSign. Before that, requests for nonexistent, reserved or inactive domain names would generate an error message.
"Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down the Site Finder service," Russell Lewis, executive vice president of VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services Group, said in a statement. "We will accede to the request while we explore all of our options." As of 3:30 p.m. PDT Friday, the site was still up.
This was the product of a stern exchange between ICANN and Verisign in the last two weeks, with ICANN asking Verisign to remove the service, and Verisign responding that it won't.
Looks like the game's afoot ... it would be interesting how this would turn out...
Posted by: Darky!
With the amount of shit VeriSign stirred up recently, it wouldn't suprise me if the service is shut down within a few weeks.
Posted by: Ocean
appearently alot of programs required the "page can not be found" error to function properly. search engines, bookmark updaters, email send systems, etc.
verisign was way too commercial in initiating it. they should have thought more on a technical level.
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