[Gllug] re: Verisign 'Site Finder' service

[Formi]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Richard Jones wrote:

> 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.
>

 It seems that Thawte, Silver Sponsor of the LinuxExpo is owned by
 Verisign. There was some discussion in news.admin.net-abuse.email
 about boycotting those two.

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