the gauntlet is thrown

Fri Oct 3 16:37:30 UTC 2003

In <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310031146010.18172-100000 at clifden.donelan.com> Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> writes:

> While any reasonable person would know what ICANN asked Verisign to do,
> any prediction whether Verisign will adopt a passive-agressive posture
> and inteprete the letter in a way to cause maximum disruption to all
> users of the Internet and then blame ICANN?
>
> ICANN told us to roll back the .COM/.NET zones to September 15 and stop
> making changes; so we deleted all domain names registered after September
> 15 and undid all changes.

Given that ICANN is using the clauses in their contract with VeriSlime
to demand the removal of the wildcards, I suspect that any such move
by VeriSlime would trigger Bad Legal Things for VeriSlime.

-wayne