(reprinted from Domain Food: http://domainfood.com/archives/000104/ )
In a predictable demonstration of not knowing when to quit, Verisign has printed a 95 page diatribe in response to ICANN's SSAC (Security and Stability Advisory Committee) report against SiteFinder. The SSAC had determined in early July that SiteFinder should remain offline indefinitely.
In their response, Verisign dissects the technical determination that SiteFinder was causing damage or harm to the net and attacks the scope of ICANN's authority, while dancing around the points of politics and bad taste, in that no educated end user or domain name professional could tolerate what Verisign had done. There are weak arguments that SiteFinder was "innovation" but in reality it was just thinly veiled greed - fed by the power Verisign holds over the .com and .net registries.
One good "reward" for all the trouble they caused might be Verisign losing the .net registry in about a year. If they keep pushing for SiteFinder, they might discover just about everyone against them, with no technical arguments required.
In a predictable demonstration of not knowing when to quit, Verisign has printed a 95 page diatribe in response to ICANN's SSAC (Security and Stability Advisory Committee) report against SiteFinder. The SSAC had determined in early July that SiteFinder should remain offline indefinitely.
In their response, Verisign dissects the technical determination that SiteFinder was causing damage or harm to the net and attacks the scope of ICANN's authority, while dancing around the points of politics and bad taste, in that no educated end user or domain name professional could tolerate what Verisign had done. There are weak arguments that SiteFinder was "innovation" but in reality it was just thinly veiled greed - fed by the power Verisign holds over the .com and .net registries.
One good "reward" for all the trouble they caused might be Verisign losing the .net registry in about a year. If they keep pushing for SiteFinder, they might discover just about everyone against them, with no technical arguments required.
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