[Wolves] Verisign dns typosquatters
fizzy
wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Sep 22 11:59:00 2003
--- Adam Sweet <drinky76@yahoo.com> wrote:
> There is an online petition against Verisign, who as
> the 'steward' of the .com and .net have taken it
> upon
> themselves to provide their own search page that
> intercepts malformed or non existent .com and .net
> urls and reminds me of the parasitic search
> hijackers
> installed by certain ad-sponsored p2p programs under
> Windows.
While i'm not sure of the effectivness of online
petitions, this is something we discussed at last
weeks LUG (during the sober part :) ) and all agreed,
it sucks big time!
fizz
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