News coverage, Verisign etc.

Wed Oct 8 19:40:49 UTC 2003

-- On Wednesday, October 8, 2003 15:28 -0400
-- Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> supposedly wrote:

> At 03:06 PM 08/10/2003, up at 3.am wrote:
>
>
>> In these days of corporate malfeasance scandal coverage, you'd think that
>> Verisign's tactics would have whetted the appetite of some bright
>> investigative reporter for one of the major publications.
>
> Too difficult and obscure a topic to make interesting.  Its even worse
> than the S&L scandal of the 80s.  Things like ice statues pissing vodka
> at private million dollar parties are easy to cover in that a picture
> says it all.... There is no easy way to convey this issue to the general
> public in just a few words and at the same time not put them to sleep....

"The company which manages all .com & .net domain names recently decided to 
redirect any and all type-os to their own servers, angering every Network 
Operator on the planet.  They did this with absolutely no advanced warning 
or public comment period.

This has the makings of a war which could shake the foundations of the web 
and change the way users get to web pages."

Hrmm, yer right, probably not spicy enough for today's tabloids.  Maybe a 
reporter could say something about "lining their pockets using a monopoly" 
or "battling titans like AOL and Microsoft", but those are not very 
technical arguments.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick