[67489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Feb 10 14:25:36 2004
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:44:30 -0500
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
In-Reply-To: <152655857.1076405044@[10.1.2.77]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Michael Loftis wrote:
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> --On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 08:58 -0700 "Wayne E. Bouchard"
> <web@typo.org> wrote:
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>>
>> I still maintain that what sitefinder is trying to do is not really
>> wrong but it's the wrong way to go about it. This is functionality
>> that is strictly for web users. Why should every other protocol that
>> relies on domain name service be subject to this garbage?
>
> Precisely! Only web users "benefit" from this "service." And you
> know what? None of my users did. Caused LOTS of confusion. Does
> anyone know of a way to get Gartner Group, Nielsen, or some other
> fairly non-biased large group to do an actual poll/study on this in
> the next couple of months?
>
Easy to do if you have $20K+ to pay them.
>
>> If they want to partner with someone to include functionality in their
>> browser such that if gethostbyname() returns NX Domain and
>> subsequently redirect to that site, this is fine by me. But I don't
>> want everything else (ssh, ftp, smtp, pop, imap, etc, etc, etc) to
>> have to compensate for the wildcard record. Making everyone else
>> adjust just so that Verisign can earn another penny per share is just
>> wrong.
>
> We've all been saying this all along....Question is how to make it
> heard? Who has contacts in the media? Who would be willing to submit
> to interviews? Etc.
>
> It's totally ridiculous, but this is a political issue being allowed
> to effect the technical system, and as is almost always the case, it's
> a miserable failure.
>
> --
> Michael Loftis
>
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
T.M. Eubanks
e-mail : marshall.eubanks@telesuite.com
http://www.telesuite.com
