more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Marc Aniballi <marcaniballi () hotmail com>
>
> Dear Dave and Joseph
>
> Although I find the creation of SiteFinder of dubious merit, the obvious
> reasons for its existence having nothing to do with altruism for the
> internet community, I believe there is a low cost way to "spank" this
> misbehaving child called Verisign.
>
> It occurs to me, that all Verisign has done is change the content of the
> "Domain not found" error message. It would take little effort from the
> dominant browser providers and/or core ISPs to simply "retranslate" a
> redirect to the URL "sitefinder.com" into "Domain not found."
>
> While this type of "hack" is, in its own right, distasteful to a degree,
> its simplicity of execution and relatively low cost, should at least
> have Verisign and other "trusted" providers to the community thinking
> twice before hijacking their mandate for personal gain. I would also
> suspect that once this type of band-aid hack is distributed, that
> Verisign's clients would find that the SiteFinder service has little of
> the value they were promised. Without paying customers, there will be
> little reason for them to continue the "service."
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Marc Aniballi

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