Being a member of LACTLD (Latin American and the Caribean Top Level Domains) I have verified this information and forwarded this email to our list in order to set a position on this issue.
I will let you know a soon as I get any response. -Francisco Obispo NIC-Venezuela ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sam Pointer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Verisign puts wildcard in .com and .net TLDs > Cool! the main registrar of .com/.net sets up a mission to destroy the > trust in the manaegement of the Internet infrastructure. Really exciting > times. I wonder what will happen tomorrow. > > I would recommend all serious users to contact their ISP and ask them to > file a complaint to verisign on the ground that this bad business practice > (apart from being unfair to all other registrars) breaks the Internet > error recovery mechanisms in how the DNS system is supposed to find out > that a site does not exists. This causes great griefs in > > * Fault searching > > * Error recovery in non-HTTP protocols, especially SMTP > > * SPAM filtering > > * Problem reporting by end-users to their support department > > * DNS resolution using domain search lists > > * and many other situations > > As someone else in the Slashdot thread said Internet is not only the web. > Moreover not all persons who surf the web are looking for registering > domain names. > > Adding a wildcard A or MX record in a root domain is not exacly a wise > move by any means. In fact it is generally a bad move in any domain and > should only be used in controlled subdomains of your own domain. > > Regards > Henrik > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Francisco J. Obispo ccTLD VE - NIC-Venezuela - CNTI http://www.nic.ve - http://www.cnti.ve +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
