"Mary Hewitt,
a spokeswoman for ICANN, said the organization knew about VeriSign's idea for
the service but had not given final approval and did not know it was being
activated. She said the group would have more comment on the matter within the
next few days."
I see a "go to your room without
any supper letter" on the horizon. ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kiggundu Mukasa
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Subject: lug_: Verisign Sued over DNS
It had to come
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3471297
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Internet search company on Thursday filed a $100 million antitrust lawsuit against VeriSign Inc., accusing the Web address provider of hijacking misspelled and unassigned Web addresses with a service it launched this week.
VeriSign's new SiteFinder service takes searches for ".com" and ".net" Web addresses that are not spelled correctly or have not yet been registered and redirects them to a VeriSign Web page that includes options and pay-for-placement topic links.
Since it was launched on Monday, the SiteFinder service has drawn widespread criticism from Internet users who complain that VeriSign has overstepped its authority. However, VeriSign says it is merely offering a convenient service................
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