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Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 01:06:59 +0300
Matt Larson wrote:
It should be noted that this notice has significantly more leadtime to the change (return to normal) behaviour than Verisign thought neccessary to "notify the community", they seemingly started to care about lately, when they introduced the wildcards in the first place.VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5. We requested an extension from ICANN to give more notice to the community but were denied. We will be removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones beginning at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4. The former behavior for these zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday, October.
To refresh the memories: #Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:24:29 -0400 #The wildcard record in the .net zone was activated from #10:45AM EDT to 13:30PM EDT. The wildcard record in the .com zone is#being added now.
So my question is, why there should have been an "extension" ?Why did Verisign ask for an extension in the first place? Would the estimated $250k daily advertising revenue have anything to do with this? Would Verisign contribute
that towards ICANN in case an extension have been granted? Pete
Current thread:
- Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Matt Larson (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Matt Levine (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Peter Galbavy (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Mark Vallar (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Suresh Ramasubramanian (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Peter Galbavy (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Matt Levine (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Petri Helenius (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Ryan Dobrynski (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Adam Kujawski (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Tom (UnitedLayer) (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Brian Bruns (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones E.B. Dreger (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Hank Nussbacher (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Jay Hennigan (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Brian Bruns (Oct 05)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)