Let me get this straight.
so say my domain is jam.com
a viewer types in jan.com
if that domain doesn't exist, they go to some Verisign Conceptual Whorehouse?
also, wondering if they could technically do the same thing, if a specific web page of mine is
jam.com/home
and the viewer types in jam.com/hobe
would that type of 404 error page now be directed to Verisign?
Either way, it is not the way things currently work. Server not found works very well.
This move by Verisign is part of the hyperMonetization of Everything Everywhere at Every Moment. You will soon be charged for every word you think or will have pop ups sent to you psychically if you misspell a word in your own mind or spend too much time thinking with words that are someone elses trademark.
Verisign must NOT implement this practice. I will join a Lawsuit to prevent this. This will negatively affect my businesses and projects that have been running under .com and .net domains.
Large settlements have already been made in court against people who bought misspelled domain names and profited from them. This is the same thing, but only worse.
Same idea for all other companies that control other name spaces. Verisign, Neustar and others should think again about fucking with the name space in this way.
I just realized that Verisign already does this with .TV.
Let's remember that Verisign doesn't own the .com and .net space, they just manage it.
If these companies don't back down, then Icann should Strip them of their rights to run the space. Poor Verisign,... lost control of the .com/.net space. Boo Hoo.
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At 10:08 PM -0700 9/11/03, George Kirikos wrote:
Hi Matt,
--- Matt Rudderham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Just incase anyone doesn't read Slashdot, this seems disturbing, if a user lands on a non-existant / deleted domain they will be given the opportunity to buy it from Verisign?
It's worse, they'll be monetizing the traffic via their own pay-per-click search engine. So, if a client does a typo of your domain, instead of seeing a standard error page, so they can retype it, Verisign will instead rewrite the error codes at the DNS level to instead point to its own website where your competitors or others can buy ads and take your business, violating your trademark rights.
See my longer comments on this issue a few days ago on the GA mailing list at:
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00295.html
Sincerely,
George Kirikos http://www.kirikos.com/
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