Yeah, with all 3 fingers

Yeah, I got one last night........... didn't think anything of it, as one wrong page is as good as another, I reckon ......... 

i find that even when I copy and paste, I sometimes get these pages.... usually because someone forgot to pay the rent.

I've blocked the two sitefinder IP's in my firewall so their redirections won't work. While the sky may not be falling, these guys have been entrusted with the .com and .site domains by the gov't and for the purpose of serving the public interest; not so they can just tinker with DNS resolutions whenever they dang well please to drive traffic to their site and increase their advertising revenues (and peddle their own services).

In effect, instead of sending spam to millions of people, they bring the millions of people to their spam. >



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They shouldn't be allowed to do that. It's unfair to competition. Verisign has a much greater and wider client-base that any other DNS service. It's like Microsoft bundling IE with Windows, the government took MS to court over that...how is this ok?

Click on this link of a domain or site that does not exist: http://www.sd93kisudif.net

Instead of a page or site not found message or error, you get a verisign sitefinder page. They are redirecting all non-existant .net and .com domains to their own servers.

There are many security and ethical issues at work here. One of the first things that into my head is all the mail servers that are set up to not allow delivery from non-exsistant domains will now allow messages they shouldn't because ANY string in the .com and .net domains will now resolve...BAD idea.


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Greed is one of the seven deadly sins...yes? Gotta love the corporate world.

I believe they already are being sued. Forgot who by but probably someone else knows...someone should sue 'em and so far as I'm aware the gov't watchdogs (ICANN) who supposedly have jurisdiction over VeriSign have only requested/suggested that VeriSign stop this practice while it is being looked into. And obviously VeriSign hasn't Wow, if they keep it up, ICANN might have to resort to.....harsh language.

That'll teach VeriSign a lesson. How lame. If VeriSign was caught distributing copyrighted Brittany songs, RIMA would have them shut down, cut off and sued within a week. But instead they screw up a portion of DNS resolution and routing for the entire flippin Internet and the gov't goes .....well, uh, gee guys, could you please just temporarily kind of stop until we figure out what we're going to decide to think about this? Please?

Pathetic.



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hey, how do you set your firewall to stop this? Block verisign's website? I don't quite understand that part. If your typing in the unknown url doesn't that direct itself to its site anyway?
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