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Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

  • From: Patrick W Gilmore
  • Date: Fri Jun 18 14:35:41 2004

On Jun 18, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:

verisign's official position throughout the sitefinder launch was that "users
are free to disable it if they want to." they did NOT want this characterized
as them shoving their sitefinder service down anybody's unwilling throat. so
i don't expect any action to occur against folks who installed a BIND patch.
Um, unless I really missed something during this whole episode, that
was the only way TO disable it.
Have the roots recurse and put a wildcard in for anything that does not resolve.

Makes Paul a ... well, not a competitor, 'cause that would imply they were in competition. If the roots put in the wild card, the GTLDs cannot compete.

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TTFN,
patrick