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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Change to .com/.net behavior
I'm going to hack my BIND so it'll discard wildcard RRs in TLDs, as a matter of reducing the flood of advertising junk reaching my desktop. I think BIND & resolver developers would do everyone a service by adding an option having the same effect. Thank you, VeriSign, I will never do business with you again. You are as bad as any spammer lowlife simply because you leave everyone with no choice to opt out of your advertising blitz. --vadim On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Matt Larson wrote: > > Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net > zones. The wildcard record in the .net zone was activated from > 10:45AM EDT to 13:30PM EDT. The wildcard record in the .com zone is > being added now. We have prepared a white paper describing VeriSign's > wildcard implementation, which is available here: > > http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/sitefinder/implementation.pdf > > By way of background, over the course of last year, VeriSign has been > engaged in various aspects of web navigation work and study. These > activities were prompted by analysis of the IAB's recommendations > regarding IDN navigation and discussions within the Council of > European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) prompted by DNS > wildcard testing in the .biz and .us top-level domains. Understanding > that some registries have already implemented wildcards and that > others may in the future, we believe that it would be helpful to have > a set of guidelines for registries and would like to make them > publicly available for that purpose. Accordingly, we drafted a white > paper describing guidelines for the use of DNS wildcards in top-level > domain zones. This document, which may be of interest to the NANOG > community, is available here: > > http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/sitefinder/bestpractices.pdf > > Matt > -- > Matt Larson <[email protected]> > VeriSign Naming and Directory Services >
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