ICANN, By now you are aware of the many technical and policitical issues regarding verisign's abuse of the DNS system. I will therefore, discuss the issues I feel most strongly about and add my support to your demands that ICANN disable their wildcard domain system and support proper reprimandation procedures.
As a business owner, if someone mistypes my domain name, I want them to get a message that the domain can't be found. If instead they go to Verisign's page, it is likely they will think that the domain is no longer valid which is obviously bad for my business and livelihood. I believe that it is illegal these days, or near to it, to register domains such as pepsi.com, pep-si.com, p-e-p-s-i.com and so forth, unless I own the pepsi trademark. If I can be punished and sued for owning such domains, surely verisign can be found at fault 100 times over for the many similar spellings of many trademarked domains. One final note, Verisign is in a particularly key position: They are one of the major databases for top level domains. They are also responsible for a lot of public key root certificate signing. Playing such a critical role, they have a responsibility to maintain a high degree of security and especially integrity. Their logo says, "The value of trust (tm)". Yet it is clear that they only thing in which they trust is the dollar. They have done too many things that show they have low integrity, and do not deserve the responsibilities for managing such key roles in the internet. Wild-card domains, mass mailing owners of domains registered by other domain registries with renewal-looking invoices, signing Microsoft's root certificates provided by someone who did not work for microsoft. This latest abuse of "trust" is simply atrocious. Please require verisign to turn off the wildcard domain and keep it off. Thank you, Cory Petkovsek -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT Consulting Technology to your (541) 914-8417 business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
