Unexpectedly, VeriSign backs down on "SiteFinder" redirection

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:11:33 -0400
From: Robert MacMillan <robert.macmillan () washingtonpost com>
Subject: verisign temporarily shuts down site finder
To: declan () well com


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40241-2003Oct3.html

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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:27:01 +0200
To: declan () well com
From: Henrik Nilsson <henrik.nilsson () mac com>
Subject: SiteFinder Unfound

Well, you've probably seen the news by now:
VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, shut down its new 
SiteFinder service on Friday after the Internet Corporation for Assigned 
Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes

http://rss.com.com/2100-1032_3-5086101.html?tag=st_lh

The immensly (spelling?) capable ICANN CEO Paul Twomey told the domain name 
registrar that it had until 6 p.m. PDT on Saturday to comply with a request 
to take down the SiteFinder service.

As some may recall, excitable elements among the Internet community were up 
in arms over "Governments" failure to act over Verisign's venture, 
disregarding the time-honored experience that
1). A great many problems will coerrct themselves, given some modicum of time.
2). Chances are that when a Government steps in to resolve a problem, 
chances are that unforseen circumstances will cause many affected people to 
wish it hadn't.

In this case, our experience may end at 1).
Let's hope it doesn't run to 2).

Yours, etc,

Henrik Nilsson
Stockholm, Sweden
ex- Government Internet Bureaucrat (now in private practise 
http://www.twobirds.com )

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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:14:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () sims berkeley edu>
Reply-To: joehall () pobox com
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Subject: VeriSign calls halt to .com detours

In the vernacular of the youth: word.
Joe

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http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5086101.html

VeriSign calls halt to .com detours

By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Story last modified October 3, 2003, 2:07 PM PDT

VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, shut down
its new SiteFinder service on Friday after the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo
controversial changes.

[...]

"Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut
down the SiteFinder service," Russell Lewis, executive vice president
of VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services Group, said in a
statement. "We will accede to the request while we explore all of our
options."

[...]

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