[IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls technologists "biased"
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh at outblaze.com
Tue Feb 10 04:05:06 UTC 2004
>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Hicks <ghicks at cadence.com> writes:
Gregory> From Dave Farber's IP list...
Gregory> VeriSign Reconsiders Search Service
This is an interesting suggestion that I saw on another list. It may
or may not be feasible, but it is certainly interesting, I must say.
srs
> There's an easy way to kill sitefinder stone cold dead.
>
> ICANN is entitled to a cut of every domain registered - IIRC it's about $5
>
> By wildcarding *.com, every typoed domain is being created by Verisign
> on the fly - and ICANN should be entitled to their pound of flesh.
>
> It would be trivial to create a bot to start walking through every
> possible 20 letter domain name - and if ICANN held them to the rules,
> Verisign would be rather poorer in short order.
>
> This should be rather easier than trying to litigate sitefinder out of
> existance and I feel it would work within the existing contract
> structure.
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