Doesn't sitefinder give one registry superior access to the registry's resources than the others, etc, etc?
It gives Verisign/NetSol the ability to generate exclusive profit from the
hijacking of every non-existant domain name in existance. No other registar
could do something like this without paying for every last domain they take,
or could they ever do anything like this due to the fact that Verisign/NetSol
controls ALL of the TLD servers for .com and .net.
[It isn't important who] wrote:
It gives Verisign/NetSol the ability to generate exclusive profit from the
hijacking of every non-existant domain name in existance. No other registar
could do something like this without paying for every last domain they take,
or could they ever do anything like this due to the fact that Verisign/NetSol
controls ALL of the TLD servers for .com and .net.
..."hijacking of every non-existent domain name in existence."
..."non-existent ... in existence."
Several people have said things like that in recent times. Including
me, I'll bet.
What exactly does it mean?
(Yes, I know. We are talking about the fact that strings submitted for
lookup that have not been registered as names would not be cause an
error to be returned. And that is clearly a lot more words, if not a
clearer description of the problem. We need a wordsmith to give us a
short string that can be converted into a useful TLA.)
Rather then clutter up NANOG with this stuff, since its apparent that we will
be having more issues about SiteFinder, I've gone ahead and setup a
discussion list on my server for general talk about SiteFinder. Its
unmoderated, everyone is welcome to signup and post your views.
http://wwwapps.2mbit.com/mailman/listinfo/sitefinder-discuss
--- "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
wrote:
..."hijacking of every non-existent domain name in
existence."
..."non-existent ... in existence."
Several people have said things like that in recent
times. Including
me, I'll bet.What exactly does it mean?
(Yes, I know. We are talking about the fact that
strings submitted for
lookup that have not been registered as names would
not be cause an
error to be returned. And that is clearly a lot
more words, if not a
clearer description of the problem. We need a
wordsmith to give us a
short string that can be converted into a useful
TLA.)
How about this:
"Sitefinder gives Verisign revenue from every
non-existent, well-formed domain name."
-David Barak
-Fully RFC 1925 Compliant-