I suppose that if enough Internet users DDOSED asdj49w8ucfosci8cfuserkctmwildfjksdfkg.com
then verigsign may rethink its policies. On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:19, Gareth Williams wrote: > oh, WTF. That is just plain wrong. I didn't believe you until I tried it for > myself :-/ > Nice article btw, thanks for the link. > > Cheers, > Gareth > > > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 12:31, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > FYI, I see in my DNS today that every possible .com and .net address now > > resolves, and goes to Verisign's portal site. > > > > This has an impact on email - rejecting an incoming email message > > because the claimed From address does now exist now fails, because all > > .com and .net addresses exist. > > > > (Naturally, spammers will start to fake from these domains only. Oddly, > > lots of 'little' TLDs like .ws and .museum have been doing this for > > ages, and the spammers don't seem to have taken advantage of it) > > > > However, because ICANN and Verisign are conjoined twins, there is no way > > around the situation. > > > > http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/verisign-internet-coup.htm > >l > > > > -jim
