----- Original Message -----
From: "Swerve" <Swerve@Swerve.com>
To: "George Kirikos" <gkirikos@yahoo.com>; "Matt Rudderham" <matt@norex.ca>;
<discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: Verisign to Make Money from Typos
> Hmm, Sept. 12. 2003
>
> Let me get this straight.
>
> so say my domain is jam.com
>
> a viewer types in jan.com
>
> if that domain doesn't exist, they go to some Verisign Conceptual
Whorehouse?
>
> also, wondering if they could technically do the same thing, if a
> specific web page of mine is
>
> jam.com/home
>
> and the viewer types in jam.com/hobe
>
> would that type of 404 error page now be directed to Verisign?
I couldn't technically see that as a possibility, at least until they pair
up with M$:)
> Either way, it is not the way things currently work. Server not
> found works very well.
>
> I just realized that Verisign already does this with .TV.
>
> Let's remember that Verisign doesn't own the .com and .net space,
> they just manage it.
>
> If these companies don't back down, then Icann should Strip them of
> their rights to run the space. Poor Verisign,... lost control of the
> .com/.net space. Boo Hoo.
I do agree that this is an abuse of their power over the registry, I was
under the impression that they were only managers of the registry, I
wouldn't think they would be allowed to use this power to give them an edge
commercially.
Cheers,
Matt
>
>
>
>
> At 10:08 PM -0700 9/11/03, George Kirikos wrote:
> >Hi Matt,
> >
> >--- Matt Rudderham <matt@norex.ca> wrote:
> >> Just incase anyone doesn't read Slashdot, this seems disturbing, if a
> >> user
> >> lands on a non-existant / deleted domain they will be given the
> >> opportunity
> >> to buy it from Verisign?
> >
> >It's worse, they'll be monetizing the traffic via their own
> >pay-per-click search engine. So, if a client does a typo of your
> >domain, instead of seeing a standard error page, so they can retype it,
> >Verisign will instead rewrite the error codes at the DNS level to
> >instead point to its own website where your competitors or others can
> >buy ads and take your business, violating your trademark rights.
> >
> >See my longer comments on this issue a few days ago on the GA mailing
> >list at:
> >
> >http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00295.html
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >George Kirikos
> >http://www.kirikos.com/
>
>
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