Site Finder

Thu Oct 16 16:38:56 UTC 2003

They claim to be representing the "USER" community and to know better than
we what they end users want.  They think we're just a bunch of geek 
engineers
that are unwilling to embrace new ideas.  Most of all, they think they can
make money this way, and, they don't really care about anything else. 
They're
just trying to manipulate things so that the backlash doesn't cause them too
much difficulty as they inflict this on the internet.

Owen

--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:04 AM -0700 Dan Lockwood 
<dlockwood at shastalink.k12.ca.us> wrote:

>
> Recognizing that I am not an 'expert', I have got to ask just one
> question.  Can these people at Verisign really think that they know
> better than all of the real experts that have worked with/on the DNS
> over the years.  It seems rather silly to assume that a few people have
> more knowledge than the collective community.  Furthermore, I feel that
> Ray makes an excellent point in that the concensus seems to be that we,
> as the Internet community, do _NOT_ want this type of tinkering with
> something that works very well; especially since the purpose is to
> increase advertising revenue.  Verisign is clearly acting against the
> concensus.  What effective action can we take as a collective group to
> get the point across that we will not tollerate this type of behavior?
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Ray Bellis
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 8:08
> To: nanog list
> Subject: Site Finder
>
>
>
> Quoting Rusty Lewis from
> http://verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031007b.html?sl=070804
>
> "We will continue to take feedback from both Internet users and the
> technical community on how we can ensure that the service is available
> for the many Internet users who clearly like it."
>
> Well that's very simple Rusty - stop screwing around with *our* DNS and
> write a plugin for IE to catch NXDOMAIN, just like the Google toolbar
> does.
>
> That'll allow 90% of the browsing population a *choice*, something the
> wildcard clearly does not.
>
> Ray
>
> --
> Ray Bellis, MA(Oxon) - Technical Director
> community internet plc - ts.com Ltd
>
> Windsor House, 12 High Street, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 2PJ
> tel:  +44 1865 856000   email: ray.bellis at community.net.uk
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>
>