If I wanted to *find* my site, I would've asked google, thankyouverymuch...
When MS introduced the autosearch misfeature in IE, I thought it was bad.
Not really Bad, but still bad.
It wasn't really Bad because it could be disabled.
I had the right to choose whether I wanted MS to take ownership of my
surfing the web and "help" me to find the site. The answer, by the way, was
that I didn't: I didn't want to "find" a site that did not exist. There was
no point it was a waste of time, *my* time, and bandwitdh, *everyone's*
bandwidth.
Then [VeriSign (R), "The Value of Trust" (TM)], decided that they needed to
do at DNS level what MS was doing at browser level. Not only that, but also
that I didn't have the right to decide what to do when I mistyped a site. I
was *always* going to be redirected to SiteFinder.
Why?
Not only why should they have the right to decide what is best for everyone,
but why did they decide to do that?
It is my opinion that ICANN should ponder that question, because the answer
is that [VeriSign (R), "The Value of Trust" (TM)], must have had very good
reasons to do that.
There was no need for SiteFinder before [VeriSign (R), "The Value of Trust"
(TM)], created it, and there is no need for such a facility now that i has
been created. Actually, SiteFinder is more likely to Break Things around the
Internet than to benefit anybody, not to mention the fact that it creates a
totally pointless traffic directed to the SiteFinder site.
And yet [VeriSign (R), "The Value of Trust" (TM)], decided to do that.
[VeriSign (R), "The Value of Trust" (TM)], decided to provide a service that
nobody needed, that is going to cause problems throughout the Internet and
that no user is likely to benefit from.
And here I am, still wondering: why?
But, while I don't know the answer, it is my opinion that, when ICANN finds
it out, this "service" will be stopped, and the DNS network will be finally
sane again.
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