Fascinating interview with Verisign CEO

Fri Oct 17 08:40:00 UTC 2003

Actually, if ISPs and engineering folks at ISPs are so pissed off at
VeriSign they can easily kill the entire Sitefinder scam by simply routing
its traffic to a bit bucket.  And by rerouting the .COM and .NET to the
boxes having the sanitized versions of zones.  It does not say anywhere
that providers are oblidged to carry all DNS traffic directly to the
original nameservers.

If VeriSign tries to do more of their monopolistic tricks, it may be
a very good idea to give them taste of their own medicine.

This can even be defensible from the legal point of view as protection of
business assets (i.e. working Internet connectivity) from being tampered
with by an unauthorized party.  No different than shutting off a script
kiddie.

"Not doing business" with VeriSign can easily mean "not routing".

--vadim