[Gllug] re: Verisign 'Site Finder' service

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:31:32AM +0100, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst t.clarke announce to the hordes:
> > 
> > Thought the following extract of an email received might be of interest:-
> > 
> > "VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to
> > shut down its new Site Finder service Friday, after the Internet
> > Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo
> > controversial changes."
> 
> They're still saying things like "this is stifling innovation" and bad for
> the internet...

For some reason my hackles start to rise as soon as I hear the word
"innovation" used by monopolists.

Rich.

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