Associated Press at http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2003/10/08/experts_descri... I am talking with the reporter, Ted Bridis. Associated Press reporters are under about as tough a deadline as TV, so it's a good fast first pass.
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
Associated Press at http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2003/10/08/experts_descri...
I am talking with the reporter, Ted Bridis. Associated Press reporters are under about as tough a deadline as TV, so it's a good fast first pass.
I think the thing which needs to be gotten across to the general public (and the decision makers) is the SiteFinder service itself was NOT shut down. The redirection to the SiteFinder service was what was shut down. This was done because this redirection is believed to have adverse side effects. The way things are being painted it seems that the SiteFinder service was turned off and there is nothing further from the truth. bye, ken emery
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of ken emery Sent: October 8, 2003 6:41 PM To: nanog@merit.org Subject: Re: More news coverage
I think the thing which needs to be gotten across to the general public (and the decision makers) is the SiteFinder service itself was NOT shut down. The redirection to the SiteFinder service was what was shut down. This was done because this redirection is believed to have adverse side effects. The way things are being painted it seems that the SiteFinder service was turned off and there is nothing further from the truth.
But isn't the "SiteFinder service" just VeriSign Marketing's name for the wildcard A record? What's the point of the search engine at sitefinder.verisign.com (which appears to be down) without the wildcard A record directing stuff to it? Vivien -- Vivien M. vivienm@dyndns.org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org> To: "'ken emery'" <ken@cnet.com>; <nanog@merit.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:28 PM Subject: RE: More news coverage
But isn't the "SiteFinder service" just VeriSign Marketing's name for the wildcard A record? What's the point of the search engine at sitefinder.verisign.com (which appears to be down) without the wildcard A record directing stuff to it?
they could try to get some legitimate traffic as , say, google or yahoo do by providing a valuable service. if it is as valuable as they claim, users will keep coming back. pg
-----Original Message----- From: Paul G [mailto:paul@rusko.us] Sent: October 8, 2003 8:38 PM To: Vivien M.; 'ken emery'; nanog@merit.org Subject: Re: More news coverage
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org> To: "'ken emery'" <ken@cnet.com>; <nanog@merit.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:28 PM Subject: RE: More news coverage
But isn't the "SiteFinder service" just VeriSign Marketing's name for the wildcard A record? What's the point of the search engine at sitefinder.verisign.com (which appears to be down) without the wildcard A record directing stuff to it?
they could try to get some legitimate traffic as , say, google or yahoo do by providing a valuable service. if it is as valuable as they claim, users will keep coming back.
But for most endusers who are using IE, they already get the MS search page? And who is actually going to manually go to sitefinder and type in their typoed URLs, especially when they're already used to Google or similar? The service's "value", if any (and that's a very big if), depends on it being automatic... Vivien -- Vivien M. vivienm@dyndns.org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/
An entity claiming to be Vivien M. (vivienm@dyndns.org) wrote: : : But for most endusers who are using IE, they already get the MS search page? : And who is actually going to manually go to sitefinder and type in their : typoed URLs, especially when they're already used to Google or similar? : : The service's "value", if any (and that's a very big if), depends on it : being automatic... : If your company wants to advertise during the SuperBowl, but your competitor has bought up all the available advertising slots, is the correct response to set up your own transmitter to jam the signal? Even if MS has an unfair competitive advantage, what VeriSign did is not an appropriate or technically feasible response. Mark -- [] Mark 'Doc' Rogaski | Computers save time like kudzu [] wendigo@pobox.com | prevents soil erosion. [] 1994 Suzuki GS500ER | -- Al Castanoli [] 1975 Yamaha RD250B |
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Paul G wrote: they could try to get some legitimate traffic as , say, google or yahoo do by providing a valuable service. if it is as valuable as they claim, users will keep coming back. pg Apparently even Verisign doesn't think it's a very valuable or legitimate service- they pulled the plug yesterday, at around 13:00 PST. http://mrtg.snark.net/http-time/ It's a shame, they finally got their page load times down to the sub-ten-second range, too. gg verisign! matto --mghali@snark.net------------------------------------------<darwin>< Flowers on the razor wire/I know you're here/We are few/And far between/I was thinking about her skin/Love is a many splintered thing/Don't be afraid now/Just walk on in. #include <disclaim.h>
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