ICANN panel says SiteFinder "should remain offline indefinitely"

[aww]

Icann's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has finalized their report on Verisign's SiteFinder:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...0040709/tc_washpost/a39443_2004jul9&printer=1

A panel of experts convened by the nonprofit organization that manages the Internet's domain-name system today took aim at the company that controls the popular "dot-com" and "dot-net" domains, issuing a report concluding that a controversial search service designed to make money off Web-browser typos is a threat to the stability of the Internet and should remain offline indefinitely.

official report in PDF format here

(I love how they do expensive official studies to tell us what we already know - sitefinder was EVIL)

 

[jstep]

lol


Sitefinder was evil :wave:

They still around in any way?

 

[aww]

Verisign is really wanting to impliment it again.

There are theories that they are still indexing unfound domains though not redirecting them. I read a sophisticated analysis about that a couple months ago though I have lost the link.

 

[jstep]

oh because if you search google they are still all over the place

 

[theparrot]

Originally posted by aww
Verisign is really wanting to impliment it again.

There are theories that they are still indexing unfound domains though not redirecting them. I read a sophisticated analysis about that a couple months ago though I have lost the link.

Sitefinder did not require an index of unregistered domains.


actually the wildcarding of unregistered names is one of the reasons I do not like .ws as much as I would otherwise.

 

[aww]

I should have used the work "logging" instead of indexing. I meant there is evidence to suggest they are still tracking unfound domains when possible but not redirecting. I really wish I could find the paper on this, it's an interesting examination.

 

[theparrot]

yeah, it would be interesting to see. Of course they could only log request to one of the 13 root servers, but I guess they could scale the results by x12 or something to get the stats they must be seeking if this is the case.

 

[lotsofissues]

Verisign is not going to quit.

SF is there savior. Some crappy committee of the ineffectual ICANN will not stop them.

 

[Raf]

Thanks for sharing this story with us aww.

 

[Anthony]

Well, this is definitely a good sign. Verisign is always up to something, though...