16 Sep
2003
16 Sep
'03
3:09 a.m.
Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net zones. The wildcard record in the .net zone was activated from 10:45AM EDT to 13:30PM EDT. The wildcard record in the .com zone is being added now. We have prepared a white paper describing VeriSign's wildcard implementation, which is available here:
This is an insane idea and the other registries doing this should remove this "feature" also. Goodbye network security. Neil.