Re: OT: HEADS-UP: viral storm out there

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 18:44:24 -0400,
  Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> wrote:
>
> In keeping with being off topic, how do people feel about Verisign
> wild-carding the .com and .net domain names so any miskeys
> (www.someunregistereddomain.com) resolve to sitefinder.verisign.com.

They have been a screw up from day 1 when some ex CIA guys used their
connections to get the contract and then proceded to charge premium
prices while doing a terrible job. I am not a big fan of the digital
certificate racket either.

I try to stay as far away from NS and ICANN as I can. I found that
the people running .to have much more user friendly policies, though
I pay a bit more. Their registry is first come first serve. They don't
publish your name, phone number or email address in their whois database.
They also don't like spammers.