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

Fri Oct 3 22:18:26 UTC 2003

Quoting Matt Larson <mlarson at verisign.com>:

> 
> VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by
> 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5.  We requested an extension from ICANN
> to give more notice to the community but were denied. 

Since when does Verisign argue that the community should be given advanced
notice of drastic changes to the .com/.net zones?

Would anybody from Verisign like to explain how extended notice of the wildcard
removal would benefit the Internet community? I'm all ears.

-Adam