Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones

[Jay Hennigan <jay () west net>]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Matt Larson wrote:

> VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by
> 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5.

This is not true.  Verisign was not instructed to suspend the Site Finder
service.  Verisign, Google, Yahoo, Altavista, etc. were not instructed to
suspend any form of site finder or search engine service.  If you operate
a good site finder, people will use it.

Verisign WAS instructed to remove wildcard entries in .com and .net which
pointed to Verisign's service (and broke several things in the process).

> We requested an extension from ICANN
> to give more notice to the community but were denied.

Which community?  The community to which you gave no notice before
implementing it?  The community which has been calling for it to go
away ASAFP from the instant it appeared?

> 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.

Thank you.  The sooner the better.

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