Head Guru Posted September 17, 2003 Posted September 17, 2003 VeriSign wreakes havoc with .com and .net top level domains. On Monday September 15th, 2003 VeriSign added a wildcard A record to the .com and .net top level domains. As a result of this action all .com and .net domains will appear to exist even when they do not. Can Verisign sink any lower? More information about this change can be found here.
Larry Posted September 18, 2003 Posted September 18, 2003 Interesting.. I remember the .ws tld has the same deal. they have a wild card also.. I wonder if verisign is gonna have it so if you go to a www.anynonexistantdomain.com and instead of gettin the normal dns error, you will recieve a "Would you like to buy this domain??"
ztrauq Posted September 18, 2003 Posted September 18, 2003 Right now, it looks like it leads to a page containing a paid-listing search engine - no direct VeriSign pitch so far. Still, this is annoying, and it's screwing up many automated DNS scripts, including a lot of spam filters - hope this doesn't hurt SpamAssasin's perfomance too much.
xGrendel Posted September 18, 2003 Posted September 18, 2003 What a joke..... I've never followed Verisign very much, but I've heard nothing but terrible things when I do hear about them. There might be one brightspot to this - fewer Netster pages......
Wilexa Posted September 19, 2003 Posted September 19, 2003 Yahoo news is reporting that Verisign is being sued over this by the Netster folks. story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=77&ncid=77&e=1&u=/mc/20030919/tc_mc/verisignsuedoversitefinder ...Dave
jslagle Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 Go Daddy's filed suit too. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...sign_lawsuit_dc
GroovyFish Posted October 3, 2003 Posted October 3, 2003 looks like ICANN told them to stop! CNET - VeriSign calls halt to .com detours
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