It's been about 2 days since ICANN requested Verisign to stop breaking. http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm Recognizing the concerns about the wildcard service, ICANN has called upon VeriSign to voluntarily suspend the service until the various reviews now underway are completed. -hc -- Haesu C. TowardEX Technologies, Inc. Consulting, colocation, web hosting, network design and implementation http://www.towardex.com | haesu@towardex.com Cell: (978)394-2867 | Office: (978)263-3399 Ext. 174 Fax: (978)263-0033 | POC: HAESU-ARIN On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:42:37PM -0400, Eric Germann wrote:
http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1024_3-5079768.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert &form=feed&subj=cnetnews
"The agency that oversees Internet domain names has asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects Web surfers to its own site when they seek to access unassigned Web addresses, rather than return an error message. "
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