Friday, October 17th, 2003
A recent News.com story has the following quote:
Still, a lot of people in the Internet community were quite surprised by Site Finder--and then you had complaints surfacing that it was not complying to approved standards.Let's break the argument down: The claim that Site Finder was nonstandard and that we should ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2003
ICANN is having a meeting TODAY on Verisign. For more information see:
1. Announcement.
2.Agenda.
3. SOME attendees (note the NTIA and DHS people).
Alas, I will not make but I am sure that ICANN Watch will be providing a host of coverage along with blogs and the media. Oh well...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2003
Verisign decided to cave in to ICANN and suspend their SiteFinder service according to a press release. Some VERY INTERESTING quotes:
"Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down the Site Finder service."
Hmm, hint, hint here - how about the fact that you turned on ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2003
Verisign decided to cave in to ICANN and suspend their SiteFinder service according to a press release. Some VERY INTERESTING quotes:
"Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down the Site Finder service."
Hmm, hint, hint here - how about the fact that you turned on ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2003
Just saw an article on ICANN Watch this morning, informing us that ICANN is asking VeriSign to shut down SiteFinder in 48 hours or "ICANN will be forced to take the steps necessary to enforce VeriSign's contractual obligations". The original announcement can be found on ICANN's website together with a ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2003
As I said on my homepage - "but do not expect frequent updates". So I finally got around to updating this blog.
Well, the past week or so has been pretty busy. The ASRG had seen some pretty heavy posting volume although today it has slowed down a little. We finally ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2003
Here is an updated link sent in by George Kirikos:
http://www.whois.sc/verisign-dns/
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Friday, September 19th, 2003
The "Snubby rejection daemon" of Verisign fame (see http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5077530.html) has been now upgraded to version 1.5! It accepts EHLO and most SMTP commands, and looks RFC compliant.
Additionally, as per below log, it accepts mail addressed to
as per section 4.5.1 of RFC 2821. It does not accept mail addressed to
, ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2003
Here is a link to a petition setup by George Kirikos:
http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2003
I am sure people have heard by now about Verisign's recent changes to the .COM/.NET servers - now all your typos belong to them - all non-existing domain names resolved to sitefinder.verisign.com. For some more information checkout these links:
Original Verisign announcement of the change:
https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg07318.html
Messages regarding the "fake" SMTP server:
https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg07323.html
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg22247.html
Reports of ...
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