[62749] in North American Network Operators' Group
ICANN asks VeriSign to pull redirect service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Germann)
Sun Sep 21 22:52:09 2003
Reply-To: <ekgermann@cctec.com>
From: "Eric Germann" <ekgermann@cctec.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:42:37 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1024_3-5079768.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert
&form=feed&subj=cnetnews
"The agency that oversees Internet domain names has asked VeriSign to
voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects Web surfers to its own site
when they seek to access unassigned Web addresses, rather than return an
error message. "
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