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Verisign’s Sitefinder (ugh)

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 anti-spam tools failing:
https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg07326.html
https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg07328.html
https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg07318.html

Reports of SMTP failures:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg22254.html
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00329.html

ISP reactions:
https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg07329.html
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00326.html

Additional DNS problems:
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00310.html
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00317.html
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg13673.html

Trademark issues:
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00321.html

Plus:
NANOG List Archive
IETF List Archive
ASRG List Archive
ICANN GNSO List Archive

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