Stop Verisign DNS Abuse
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We internet users, who either own domain names or have an interest in the domain name system, wish to object to the Verisign Sitefinder system. We believe that the system:
1. breaks technical standards, by rewriting the expected error codes to instead point to Verisign's pay-per-click web directory, and threatens the security and stability of the Internet;
2. breaks technical standards affecting email services, and other internet systems;
3. is anti-competitive, providing Verisign with 20 million eyeballs per day for "free", while not paying for the domains they are resolving. All other market participants pay at least $6 per domain per year (wholesale);
4. violates trademark rights of domain holders, by typosquatting on their .com and .net domains; and
5. violates the authoritative nature of DNS, turning it instead into a "best guess" system filled with uncertainty, thereby destroying the coherence of the DNS for Verisign's own short-term profit.
We hereby demand that ICANN immediately:
a) insist that Verisign cease giving incorrect answers to any query in .com and .net, and should instead follow the IETF standards;
b) if Verisign refuses, should redelegate the .com and .net zones to registries that are more willing to follow the DNS standards;
c) for greater certainty for all gTLD registries, pass a resolution stating that "gTLD Registry operateors WILL return NXDOMAIN for ALL DNS queries for which there is not a REGISTERED domain name"; and
d) that Verisign be reprimanded for their monopolistic abuse of the DNS system, and return all audited gross revenues from their Sitefinder system to stakeholders, via a payment to the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) of ICANN in the name of the Non-Commercial constituency
[Supporting documentation can be found at the sites below]
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/
http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0309/date.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/
http://log.does-not-exist.org/
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lynn-message-to-iab-06jan03.htm
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/iab-message-to-lynn-25jan03.htm
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00336.html
1. breaks technical standards, by rewriting the expected error codes to instead point to Verisign's pay-per-click web directory, and threatens the security and stability of the Internet;
2. breaks technical standards affecting email services, and other internet systems;
3. is anti-competitive, providing Verisign with 20 million eyeballs per day for "free", while not paying for the domains they are resolving. All other market participants pay at least $6 per domain per year (wholesale);
4. violates trademark rights of domain holders, by typosquatting on their .com and .net domains; and
5. violates the authoritative nature of DNS, turning it instead into a "best guess" system filled with uncertainty, thereby destroying the coherence of the DNS for Verisign's own short-term profit.
We hereby demand that ICANN immediately:
a) insist that Verisign cease giving incorrect answers to any query in .com and .net, and should instead follow the IETF standards;
b) if Verisign refuses, should redelegate the .com and .net zones to registries that are more willing to follow the DNS standards;
c) for greater certainty for all gTLD registries, pass a resolution stating that "gTLD Registry operateors WILL return NXDOMAIN for ALL DNS queries for which there is not a REGISTERED domain name"; and
d) that Verisign be reprimanded for their monopolistic abuse of the DNS system, and return all audited gross revenues from their Sitefinder system to stakeholders, via a payment to the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) of ICANN in the name of the Non-Commercial constituency
[Supporting documentation can be found at the sites below]
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/
http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0309/date.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/
http://log.does-not-exist.org/
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lynn-message-to-iab-06jan03.htm
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/iab-message-to-lynn-25jan03.htm
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00336.html
14784 Signatures
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George Kirikos
- Comments
- Verisign needs to stop this blatant abuse of the DNS.
- Location
- Toronto, Canada
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Steve Stoeser
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Frank Michlick
- Location
- Oakville, Canada
- Company
- Degap
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Oscar Wu
- Comments
- Location
- Toronto
- Company
- Tucows
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Bill Laakkonen
- Location
- Fort Myers Florida
- Company
- Im1
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Jay Westerdal
- Comments
- clear abuse of monopoly power to make a few buck at the worlds expense, why is Verisign entrusted with .COM registry?
- Location
- Bellevue, WA
- Company
- Name Intelligence, Inc.
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Anthony Coffman
- Location
- Akron, Ohio, USA
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Eric Martin
- (sales@mmcomputers.com)
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Dave Carlin
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Matt Van Grinsven
- (webmaster@outboxes.com)
- Location
- Appleton
- Company
- Outboxes.com Network
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Gordon Martin
- (gmartfin@shaw.ca)
- Comments
- right on
- Location
- BC Canada
- Company
- DropWizard.com
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Josef Grosch
- (jgrosch@mooseriver.com)
- Location
- Berkeley, Ca.
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Josh Melamed
- Comments
- Stop Verisign Now!
- Location
- Canada
- Company
- К
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Duff Reid
- Location
- Kelowna, BC Canada
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Dmitri Pavlenkov
- Comments
- Don't make dumb standards
- Location
- Fort Myers, FL, USA
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Brian Kruger
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Wouter Vonk
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Daniel Stager
- Comments
- Verisign is typosquating on trademarked names and using my non-server appointed property to generate revenue without my permission.
- Location
- New Hampshire
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Martin Bublitz
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Brad Britton
- Comments
- Verisign was trusted to operate the DNS in a way to be fair to ALL people. They have betrayed this trust in exchange for profit. They are using their position to gain an unfair advantage over other businesses and people.
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Jeff Wasilko
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Raymond Bero
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Mark Petersen
- Location
- Seattle, WA USA
- Company
- Planet Nic
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Eric Prigge
- Comments
- Stop theft of the .com and .net space!
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
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- WebhostingONE
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Chad Wright
- Location
- Modesto CA
- Company
- WebQuest.com Inc.
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Ewan Edwards
- Location
- Victoria, BC, Canada
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Deid Reime
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Humfrey Brandes
- Location
- London, UK
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Ewan Bain
- Location
- Scotland
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Robert Deemer
- Comments
- Stop the abuse versign.
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- USA
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Nicholas B. Swift
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Farokh Irani
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Robert L Mathews
- Company
- President, Tiger Technologies Internet Services
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Kai Xue
- Comments
- It may suck now but we should be enjoying this soon...
- Location
- California
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Yakov Shafranovich
- Location
- USA
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Lewis W. Richards, III
- Comments
- One of the greatest outrages since the start of the internet system.
- Location
- New Jersey, US
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Timothy R N J Wesson
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- Increadable. Ridiculous abuse of our namespace.
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- Cambridge, England
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- Freelance Programmer
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Kevin M. Kelly
- Comments
- A blatant abuse of DNS. By resolving 'unregistered' domain names to their website, Verisign has co-opted the domain name thereby circumventing payment of the fees required for use of the domain name system.
- Location
- Iowa
- Company
- Kelly Webworks
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Tim Woodcock
- Location
- Victoria, BC, Canada
- Company
- BareMetal.com, inc.
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Andy Gardner
- Comments
- This is the result of ICANN letting Verisign give it a shafting over the net/org redelgation. Do something ICANN - JUST THIS ONCE!!!
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Larry Wentz
- Comments
- IMO - the monopoly that Verisign has is dangerous for the Internet as a whole and an absolute outrage!
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Michael Schultheiss
- Company
- Amellus Enterprises, Ltd.
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Tarmo Tдnav
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Anders Hellstrom
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Adrian Daminato
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Bill Weinman
- Company
- bw.org
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torben fjerdingstad
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- Denmark
- Company
- UNI-C
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James W. Caruso, Sr.
- Comments
- Customer of Versign: PayFlow Pro, etc.
- Location
- Roswell, GA U.S.A.
- Company
- MediaFirst PR - Atlanta
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Joseph Ball
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Jeff Cronstrom
- Location
- Massachusetts, USA
- Company
- Tzolkin Corp.
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