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>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Hicks <[email protected]> writes: Gregory> From Dave Farber's IP list... Gregory> VeriSign Reconsiders Search Service This is an interesting suggestion that I saw on another list. It may or may not be feasible, but it is certainly interesting, I must say. srs > There's an easy way to kill sitefinder stone cold dead. > > ICANN is entitled to a cut of every domain registered - IIRC it's about $5 > > By wildcarding *.com, every typoed domain is being created by Verisign > on the fly - and ICANN should be entitled to their pound of flesh. > > It would be trivial to create a bot to start walking through every > possible 20 letter domain name - and if ICANN held them to the rules, > Verisign would be rather poorer in short order. > > This should be rather easier than trying to litigate sitefinder out of > existance and I feel it would work within the existing contract > structure.
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