Re: Verisign to Make Money from Typos

[Swerve]

Time for my once in 3 years discuss list post.

How is it against the UDRP?.. What exactly are you going to WIPO?
The name doesn't exist!! It's an IP attorneys wet dream at that layer.


Good to hear from ya 3 years later.

If it's a misspelling of an existing domain, then it "exists", as the 
viewer was trying to get to
Opensrs.Net

but typed in Opensrsss.Net
cause they threw up on their keyboard when they heard about 
Verisign's dirty scummy tactics, which caused their keyboard to 
occasionally repeattt.

Benefiting from misspelled domains has been proven to be bad faith 
domain purchasing.  Revising the whole fucking registry system to 
suit Verisign's commercial needs is Wrong and likely illegal.

C'mon Icann, pull the switch, make the phone calls, ...
 Shut Verisign Out of running the .com/.net registries.
Swerve

* Ok, i'll stop swearing.

On the other layer, I'd say that unilaterally modifying the roots and dns
system is more the issue here. And a serious one at that.
Small wonder the ccTLDs (or anyone else for that matter) don't trust
VeriSign or their puppet ICANN.
Can't wait for MS(IE) and AOL(Proprietary browser/Netscape) to bring out a
security "patch" that no longer resolves Icann.org or Verisign.* or
NetworkSolutions.*
:)))

Gord Jeske
CEO
Domain Name Systems, Inc.
Englewood Florida
Offices in: US and Canada



At 03:50 PM 09/15/2003 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doing this would devalue domain names, give them an unjust MONOPOLY, cut
many companies intercepting this on THEIR networks out of the picture(I
don't think THIS is right EITHER, but these companies, one of which is
Microsoft,
WILL be fighting against this.), destroy validation checks, and many other
things.
It is CLEARLY not right, and according to the UDRP not even LEGAL!  What
is the difference between my registering yhoo.com to get traffic,and their
intercepting it?
If you ask me, *I* should have more right, since I would pay for it, and
have paid taxes that helped them(verisign, although I DID help support the
college where the precursor to yahoo once was hosted.) to get here in the
first place.  Yet I CAN'T becauseit violates the UDRP, devalues yahoos
domain,
and is thus unethical.

Verisign would be breaking THOSE ethics/laws AND have a monopoly and be
misusing what amounts to be a utility.  They have already been sued ONCE
for FAR less on the basis of a monopoly ONLY.  THAT is why opensrs and other
competitors exist!!!!
As Stossel would say "GIVE ME A BREAK!"

Steve

-- Original Message --
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:32:06 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Verisign to Make Money from Typos
From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave Warren wrote on Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:04:38 -0600:

 Why not?

I didn't expect they had the chuzpe to fake all ns lookups. But as I see

they already do this for .cc and .tv. Nevertheless, I expect a major
uproar from providers worldwide if they start doing this for com/net as

well.

Kai

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