[67439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Feb 9 23:11:20 2004
To: nanog@nanog.org
Cc: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
From: suresh@outblaze.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:35:06 +0530
In-Reply-To: <200402092311.i19NBPEV001421@metis.cadence.com> (Gregory
Hicks's message of "Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:11:25 -0800 (PST)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com> writes:
Gregory> From Dave Farber's IP list...
Gregory> VeriSign Reconsiders Search Service
This is an interesting suggestion that I saw on another list. It may
or may not be feasible, but it is certainly interesting, I must say.
srs
> There's an easy way to kill sitefinder stone cold dead.
>
> ICANN is entitled to a cut of every domain registered - IIRC it's about $5
>
> By wildcarding *.com, every typoed domain is being created by Verisign
> on the fly - and ICANN should be entitled to their pound of flesh.
>
> It would be trivial to create a bot to start walking through every
> possible 20 letter domain name - and if ICANN held them to the rules,
> Verisign would be rather poorer in short order.
>
> This should be rather easier than trying to litigate sitefinder out of
> existance and I feel it would work within the existing contract
> structure.
