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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 19-Sep-2003 23:10:37
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| Know what? I hate it when I type the wrong address and someone decides to ship me off to some totally different place. It's just confusing that something gets loaded in the browser when it shouldn't. You look again at the domain name and then at the contents.. or those "this site is for sale!" .. eh, ok, do I care? If I want to reg my own domain, I can do that with a proper domain registrar that has domain search engines etc.
Things like this pisses me off.
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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 19-Sep-2003 23:12:21
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| All of your URL r belong to us.
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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 20-Sep-2003 0:09:33
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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 20-Sep-2003 0:45:00
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| Confirmed:
I'm not getting redirected to a web page, getting server errors, BUT:
in Windows XP (Not sure of the exact syntax in Linux)
Ping www.adhasdfkhskjs.com (i.e www.random chars .com)
Pings 64.94.110.11
If you now do a ping -a 64.94.110.11 (Which does a lookup of the domain name from the IP address )
You get back the address sitefinder-idn.verisign.com
Very naughty, I'm of to sign that petition !
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I've tried to sign the petition, it lets me fill in my details, but gives me a page cannot be displayed error when I try to post the details. Anyone else having problems ?. I'll try again later |
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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 20-Sep-2003 1:16:22
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| I also tried to sign that thing but fialed so next step was to block all in and outgoing data from/to sitefinder.verisign.com in my firewall... at least I don't get redirected to this bs any more.
Wonder when antispam systems will start checking not only that the sender exist but also that it's not this verisigns bs... AND more important if it is verisigns cr@pp then redirect the spam to them! 
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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 20-Sep-2003 9:09:19
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| The petition is currently blocked at 178 signatures.
I've written to the site support address to ask for it to be unblocked. Apparently there were nearly 13000 signatures on the original petition, which had ot be scrapped due to security worries. |
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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 20-Sep-2003 9:38:20
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| VeriSign are making lots of money from these redirects, I think VeriSign have over stepped their authority.
The goodnews is that The Internet Software Consortium, the non-profit body that develops the ubiquitous BIND domain name server, has adapted its software so that those users who enter mistyped domain names are served up with old-style error messages instead of Site Finder.
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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 20-Sep-2003 10:39:38
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| Well i have just blocked VeriSign's IP address, so I (hopefully) won't be seeing thier stupid site.
This beggers belive, I am half tempted to send ALL my spam to them, as a way of saying thankyou for the service.
Gemini
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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 20-Sep-2003 10:55:37
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| The worst part of this is that if you have a secondary mailserver set up (in case the primary one goes down) and the company hosting it for you makes a mistake you will end up with sitefinder.verisign.com receiving AND REPLYING "no such user" to your incoming emails.
This is REALLY horrible.
And for some reason it doesn't work to sign the petition (I get an error when I click on "approve signature")
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Re: VeriSign hijack domain typos
Posted on 20-Sep-2003 15:54:59
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| To make this type of change to this type of service without consultation and with very little warning, if any, is a disgrace.
Just wait until all those companies who have lost time and money from this change start to line up at their door with lawyers in tow. It is just about plausable.
Tried the petition as well but still blocked it seems. What were the security concerns? email addresses not being stored safely? Surely that's not too hard to fix?
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