"Gregory" == Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com> writes:
Gregory> From Dave Farber's IP list... Gregory> VeriSign Reconsiders Search Service This is an interesting suggestion that I saw on another list. It may or may not be feasible, but it is certainly interesting, I must say. srs
There's an easy way to kill sitefinder stone cold dead.
ICANN is entitled to a cut of every domain registered - IIRC it's about $5
By wildcarding *.com, every typoed domain is being created by Verisign on the fly - and ICANN should be entitled to their pound of flesh.
It would be trivial to create a bot to start walking through every possible 20 letter domain name - and if ICANN held them to the rules, Verisign would be rather poorer in short order.
This should be rather easier than trying to litigate sitefinder out of existance and I feel it would work within the existing contract structure.