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[rone]

More on the .com/.net A wildcards:

The Internet Software Consortium, the nonprofit organization that develops BIND software for Internet domain name directories, is writing an "urgent patch" for Internet service providers and others who want to block customers from a new Site Finder service from VeriSign Inc.
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"We're making this patch available because our customers are screaming for it," [ISC's Paul] Vixie said.
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VeriSign spokesman Brian O'Shaughnessy said Tuesday that individual service providers were free to configure their systems so customers would bypass Site Finder. But he questioned whether releasing a patch to do so would violate Internet standards.
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Earlier this year, a suburban Washington company called Paxfire Inc. tested a similar service for ".biz" and ".us" names, but the U.S. government and a private oversight board asked Paxfire to suspend it after a few weeks pending a review, Paxfire chairman Mark Lewyn said.

Comments

[gallifreyan.livejournal.com]

http://www.petitiononline.com/badnsi/petition.html

Probably won't change anything, but can't hurt too much.

That one might be a harder sell, but

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

this one (http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/) is getting 10 signatures a minute.

[tritone.livejournal.com]

Oddly, if I use Mozilla Firebird, I don't get the VeriSign redirect--I just get the usual dialog saying it couldn't find the site.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

That is my browser of choice and it 'works' for me... odd.