RomeoTangoFoxtrotMike
16th Sep 2003, 20:36
Internet users need to know that...
Verisign, the company which has the contract to run the .com domain (but does not actually own it, despite what it thinks) yesterday made changes to the .com nameservers which effectively make every .com domain valid, by dint of making all the genuinely non-existant domains point to one of Verisign's advertising servers :mad:
This will have serious side-effects. For example, anti-spam software, which checks to see that mail comes from a vaild adress, will now think that every .com email is valid, thus requiring much more effort to distinguish.
Indeed, if you mistype an email address, your private email will end up going to Verisign's server. Right now, that server is rejecting all incoming email, but do you trust them not to do something else in the future -- notwithstanding their "Privacy Policy".
Further, you are deemed to have agreed to their "Conditions of Use", despite the fact that you had no intention of going there. In particular, the CofU contains:-
10. Sole Remedy.
YOUR USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY OF THE MATERIALS, RESULTS OR OTHER CONTENTS OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT, OR OTHER POLICIES, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR OUR SITE.
But you cannot "DISCONTINUE USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR OUR SITE", since they have hijacked your request and forced you there in the first place :ooh:
Also, you have agreed to indemnify Verising against any "misuse" you may make of the information they've supplied to you :uhoh:
All of which constitutes a diabolical abuse of their monopoly position, IMNSHO :mad:
Verisign, the company which has the contract to run the .com domain (but does not actually own it, despite what it thinks) yesterday made changes to the .com nameservers which effectively make every .com domain valid, by dint of making all the genuinely non-existant domains point to one of Verisign's advertising servers :mad:
This will have serious side-effects. For example, anti-spam software, which checks to see that mail comes from a vaild adress, will now think that every .com email is valid, thus requiring much more effort to distinguish.
Indeed, if you mistype an email address, your private email will end up going to Verisign's server. Right now, that server is rejecting all incoming email, but do you trust them not to do something else in the future -- notwithstanding their "Privacy Policy".
Further, you are deemed to have agreed to their "Conditions of Use", despite the fact that you had no intention of going there. In particular, the CofU contains:-
10. Sole Remedy.
YOUR USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY OF THE MATERIALS, RESULTS OR OTHER CONTENTS OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT, OR OTHER POLICIES, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR OUR SITE.
But you cannot "DISCONTINUE USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR OUR SITE", since they have hijacked your request and forced you there in the first place :ooh:
Also, you have agreed to indemnify Verising against any "misuse" you may make of the information they've supplied to you :uhoh:
All of which constitutes a diabolical abuse of their monopoly position, IMNSHO :mad: