Verisign vs. ICANN

Fri Jun 18 18:31:08 UTC 2004

On Jun 18, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:

>> verisign's official position throughout the sitefinder launch was 
>> that "users
>> are free to disable it if they want to."  they did NOT want this 
>> characterized
>> as them shoving their sitefinder service down anybody's unwilling 
>> throat.  so
>> i don't expect any action to occur against folks who installed a BIND 
>> patch.
>
> Um, unless I really missed something during this whole episode, that
> was the only way TO disable it.

Have the roots recurse and put a wildcard in for anything that does not 
resolve.

Makes Paul a ... well, not a competitor, 'cause that would imply they 
were in competition.  If the roots put in the wild card, the GTLDs 
cannot compete.

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TTFN,
patrick