[62750] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN asks VeriSign to pull redirect service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Haesu)
Sun Sep 21 23:12:29 2003
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:12:14 -0400
From: Haesu <haesu@towardex.com>
To: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <NDBBJJPLIGJGLBKILFIHCEBEMHAA.ekgermann@cctec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
It's been about 2 days since ICANN requested Verisign to stop breaking.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm
Recognizing the concerns about the wildcard service, ICANN has called
upon VeriSign to voluntarily suspend the service until the various
reviews now underway are completed.
-hc
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:37PM -0400, Eric Germann wrote:
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> http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1024_3-5079768.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert
> &form=feed&subj=cnetnews
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> "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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