Paul Vixie on VeriSign (O'ReillyNet)

Paul Vixie on VeriSign (O'ReillyNet)

I don't approve, what they are doing and don't know, what they are smoking. Also they are not the first to do stuff like this.

However, they did it in a namespace that matters. nu-names is doing the same thing (redirects you to a wanna buy page), however, nu-names is the official .nu operator so it doesn't really bug anybody seriously.

Since VeriSign is both registrator (competing with others) and handling the gtld servers, which should tell them to be more careful. They are going to piss others off very fast by doing stuff like this and the U.S. is known to be a place where a law-suit is coming up without much reason.

One thing is that they break stuff, that did rely on NXDOMAIN, the other thing is worse: It's about power and misuse of the power given to you. And it'll gonna cost them creditability, if they don't look out. People are allready looking on their fingers since many domains that expire at VeriSign end in domain pirates hands (i don't say, they work together with them, but they certainly don't do anything against it) and the thing sending "invoices" out to other registrators customers, moving the domains, if paid, etc. wasn't really a lucky move either.

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