[FYI] VeriSign to revive redirect service

[Jan Meyer <jan@synflood.in-berlin.de>]

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VeriSign to revive redirect service

VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a controversial
and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many .com and .net
domains, company representatives said Wednesday.

Speaking before an unusual gathering of technical experts in Washington,
D.C., VeriSign said its own re-evaluation of its Site Finder redirection
service found "no identified security or stability problems." When it was
active, Site Finder added a "wild card" for .com and .net domains that
snared queries to nonexistent Internet sites and forwarded them to
VeriSign's own servers.

~ That confused some antispam filters and other network utilities, a side
effect that VeriSign downplayed on Wednesday by arguing that Site Finder's
benefits to end users--a search screen instead of an error
message--outweighed the costs to network administrators. "One of the
segments of the community that has not been looked at in this whole issue,
in my opinion, is the user community," VeriSign Vice President Chuck Gomes
said. "They're very relevant."

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