[IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

Tue Feb 10 16:44:30 UTC 2004

On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Michael Loftis wrote:

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> --On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 08:58 -0700 "Wayne E. Bouchard" 
> <web at typo.org> wrote:
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>> I still maintain that what sitefinder is trying to do is not really
>> wrong but it's the wrong way to go about it. This is functionality
>> that is strictly for web users. Why should every other protocol that
>> relies on domain name service be subject to this garbage?
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> Precisely!  Only web users "benefit" from this "service."  And you 
> know what?  None of my users did.  Caused LOTS of confusion.  Does 
> anyone know of a way to get Gartner Group, Nielsen, or some other 
> fairly non-biased large group to do an actual poll/study on this in 
> the next couple of months?
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Easy to do if you have $20K+ to pay them.

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>> If they want to partner with someone to include functionality in their
>> browser such that if gethostbyname() returns NX Domain and
>> subsequently redirect to that site, this is fine by me. But I don't
>> want everything else (ssh, ftp, smtp, pop, imap, etc, etc, etc) to
>> have to compensate for the wildcard record. Making everyone else
>> adjust just so that Verisign can earn another penny per share is just
>> wrong.
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> We've all been saying this all along....Question is how to make it 
> heard? Who has contacts in the media?  Who would be willing to submit 
> to interviews?  Etc.
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> It's totally ridiculous, but this is a political issue being allowed 
> to effect the technical system, and as is almost always the case, it's 
> a miserable failure.
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> --
> Michael Loftis
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                                  Marshall Eubanks

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