Change to .com/.net behavior

Wed Sep 17 19:07:07 UTC 2003

Don't know, but I cannot get to the VSGN wildcard site. DNS is still returning the IP, but port 80
is not responding or is very slow. Bet they didn't allocate enough servers to this  (hehehehe) or 
its being DOS'ed.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Hayes Merritt, III" <sam at themerritts.org>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 13:53
Subject: RE: Change to .com/.net behavior

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> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Schwartz wrote:
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> > Microsoft, for example, specifically designed IE to behave in a
> > particular way when an unregistered domain was entered. Verisigns
> > wildcard record is explicitly intended to break this detection.
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> Has Microsoft responded to this yet? Seems like Verisign's scam is
> running over Microsoft's scam.
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> sam
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