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> They could do this because they controlled those from the registry side of things, and it was trivial to slam something that would make it resolve. Was this
by quickthrower2 3y ago
> They could do this because they controlled those from the registry side of things, and it was trivial to slam something that would make it resolve.
Was this legal?
If so what stopped them there, they could just hijack any domain?
- dharmab 3y agoICANN sent Verisign a strongly worded letter. Verisign stopped, but then sued ICANN and they settled a few years later.
- ajonit 3y agoVerisign sued ICANN! Why? What’s the full story?
- NL807 3y ago> VeriSign had sued ICANN, accusing the regulatory group that oversees the Internet's technical infrastructure of overstepping its contractual authority and dragging its feet on allowing VeriSign to offer new services such as a wait-list service and internationalized domain names. In the lawsuit, VeriSign claimed that ICANN stepped outside its charter by delaying the introduction of new VeriSign services, including its Site Finder service, which redirects requests for nonexistent Web addresses, and its ConsoliDate service, which manages multiple domains. VeriSign claimed that ICANN cost the company money because of its tactics Details here: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2560283/icann-revises-settlement-with-verisign.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2560283/icann-revises-...
- JohnFen 3y agoI love how they characterize blatant abuse as "services".
- AndyMcConachie 3y agoHere is the ICANN archive of documents related to SiteFinder. https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/wildcard-history.html https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/wildcard-history.html In the end it resulted in what ICANN now calls the RSEP process. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rsep-2014-02-19-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rsep-2014-02-19-en
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoTLD-insensitive request sounds like a nice feature: when you type cia.org and is redirected to cia.gov
- Sophira 3y agoExcept when you want to find out more about the x.org X11 server and get redirected to Twitter (x.com).
- zamadatix 3y agoWas there ever a time someone who wanted to find out more about xorg x11 knew (without already knowing about it) to just type "x.org" instead of "x11.org" or "xorg.org" or "xorg.com" or "xserver.org" and so on, finding non-existent responses or alternative groups who call themselves x? Collision and needing to "divine" the domain seem inherent to having a name system. Both this and the need for a TLD-insensitive lookup were solved by making the address bar also the search bar so people can use search engines to find new things instead of DNS.
- Joker_vD 3y agoOf course, the actual solution to this minor problem turned out to be the web search engines.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoDo you trust them to not send you to a phishing site?
- Joker_vD 3y agoAbout as much as I trust the DNS to not send me to a phishing site.
- delfinom 3y agoAka, all TLDS become worthless and the guy with the most money wins?