On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:41:14PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5087139.html?tag=nefd_top The article makes me wonder if CNET is the press, or an outlet for press releases. The Internet community is almost uniform in expressing outrage for numerous REAL reasons, yet CNET says its from the Internet's technical "old guard".... Sorry, so where is the "new guard" calling for Verisign to come back with sitefinder ? Also CNET leaves un challenged the 'excuse of the day' that Verisign without site finder "will not be able to protect the Net's critical infrastructure"...
We've been covering the impact of SiteFinder since September 16. I didn't write that article (I was in transit from a conference in Canada) but I've written about five articles on SiteFinder so far, and I'll probably write another today based on the ICANN committee meeting. Taken as a whole, I hardly think our coverage of SiteFinder is an "outlet for press releases" from VeriSign or anyone else. Take a look at our first article from September 16: http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5077530.html
Criticism is quickly growing over VeriSign's surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names, a move that has wreaked havoc on many e-mail utilities and antispam filters. On Monday, VeriSign began to redirect domain lookups for misspelled or nonexistent names to its own site, a process that has confused Internet e-mail utilities and drawn angry denunciations of the company's business practices from frustrated network administrators. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company enjoys a government-granted monopoly as the master database administrator for .com and .net.
That said, being a news organization (instead of an advocacy organization) means that we're going to try to represent all sides of the story. Just as we've given space to Jack Valenti, I suspect we'll give it to VeriSign when they have something sufficiently newsworthy to say. As always, feel free to email us at: send-letters-to-news at cnet.com I hope you continue to read News.com. Best, Declan CNET News.com Washington, DC (but speaking only for myself)