Sitefinder study released

Wed Oct 8 10:47:18 UTC 2003

Now this is the kind of thing that we need to combat Verisign.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/tlds/sitefinder/

The data presented here exhaustively shows that Verisign's whole business 
model is flawed because they don't really control this "diversion" of 
traffic and ISPs can and will block the diversions at source with DNS 
patches and routing. This particular paper puts pressure the companies 
that are paying Verisign for the Sitefinder service.

We still need more papers that describe the negative technical impacts of 
sitefinder and we need those papers to be published somewhere, not just on 
the NANOG mailing list. At minimum, you should send copies to both ICANN 
and to the Berkman Center (read the above paper for a URL).

--Michael Dillon