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[IP] Verisign tells ICANN to drop dead




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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:58:42 -0700
From: Dan Gillmor <dgillmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Verisign tells ICANN to drop dead
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lewis-to-twomey-21sep03.htm

My comment:

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001361.shtml

September 22, 2003
<http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001361.shtml#001361>Verisign to ICANN: We'll Do What We Please
? posted by <mailto:dgillmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Dan Gillmor 03:53 PM
? <http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001361.shtml#001361>permanent link to this item

Verisign, indifferent to the uproar it's caused with the outrageous redirection of mis-typed URLs to one of its own advertising-laden sites, has given its answer to a request by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to <http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm>voluntarily suspend this "service."

The answer is <http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lewis-to-twomey-21sep03.htm>"No" -- and Verisign all but dares ICANN to even try to do something about it. Key quote: "All indications are that users, important members of the internet community we all serve, are benefiting from the improved web navigation offered by Site Finder."

Note that Verisign kept its monopoly over .com and .net domains solely because ICANN allowed it to happen. What this means, if Verisign gets away with its actions, is that ICANN has no authority of any real consequence. It means Verisign can continue to abuse the privileged position it neither earned nor should have kept.

What can the community do now? I'm moving my one remaining domain to another registrar that at least seems honorable. Not much more I can do except note this ongoing thumb in the eye to the Net community.


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