North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Verisign's public opinion play
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:41:14PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5087139.html?tag=nefd_top > The article makes me wonder if CNET is the press, or an outlet for press > releases. The Internet community is almost uniform in expressing outrage > for numerous REAL reasons, yet CNET says its from the Internet's technical > "old guard".... Sorry, so where is the "new guard" calling for Verisign to > come back with sitefinder ? Also CNET leaves un challenged the 'excuse of > the day' that Verisign without site finder "will not be able to protect the > Net's critical infrastructure"... We've been covering the impact of SiteFinder since September 16. I didn't write that article (I was in transit from a conference in Canada) but I've written about five articles on SiteFinder so far, and I'll probably write another today based on the ICANN committee meeting. Taken as a whole, I hardly think our coverage of SiteFinder is an "outlet for press releases" from VeriSign or anyone else. Take a look at our first article from September 16: http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5077530.html >Criticism is quickly growing over VeriSign's surprise decision to take >control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names, a move that has >wreaked havoc on many e-mail utilities and antispam filters. >On Monday, VeriSign began to redirect domain lookups for misspelled or >nonexistent names to its own site, a process that has confused >Internet e-mail utilities and drawn angry denunciations of the >company's business practices from frustrated network >administrators. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company enjoys a >government-granted monopoly as the master database administrator for >.com and .net. That said, being a news organization (instead of an advocacy organization) means that we're going to try to represent all sides of the story. Just as we've given space to Jack Valenti, I suspect we'll give it to VeriSign when they have something sufficiently newsworthy to say. As always, feel free to email us at: send-letters-to-news at cnet.com I hope you continue to read News.com. Best, Declan CNET News.com Washington, DC (but speaking only for myself)
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