Verisign backlash gathers force

[siljaline]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32933.html



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siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:48:34 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, siljaline
<siljaline@invalid.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32933.html

See also:

<https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/pressreleases/verisign_suit.asp?isc=&se=%2B&from%5Fapp=>
<http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm>
<http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-wildcards.html>

With any luck, this extraordinarily nasty bonehead move will be the straw
that finally breaks VeriSlime's grip on the .com and .net TLDs.

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Jay T. Blocksom
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Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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