Verisign's "SiteFinder" site -- not offline yet

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[It's still up right now. --Declan]

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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:34:10 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
From: Malcolm Hoar <malch () malch com>
Subject: Re: [Politech] Unexpectedly, VeriSign backs down on
  "SiteFinder" redirection


At 07:44 PM 10/3/2003, you wrote:

>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
>
>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.

CNN and others have reported the same thing.

Except that... it has *not* been shut down, at the time of writing.

I have little doubt that it will be gone by sometime tomorrow
but it irks me that so many journalists have the basic facts
wrong.

Fortunately, it's rare to see such errors promulgated on
Politechbot. Thank you for taking so much care! But this one
slipped through :-(

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