Re: OT: HEADS-UP: viral storm out there

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 18:44:24 -0400,
> Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>In keeping with being off topic, how do people feel about Verisign
>>wild-carding the .com and .net domain names so any miskeys
>>(www.someunregistereddomain.com) resolve to sitefinder.verisign.com.
>
> They have been a screw up from day 1 when some ex CIA guys used their
> connections to get the contract and then proceded to charge premium
> prices while doing a terrible job. I am not a big fan of the digital
> certificate racket either.

I've been writing Java 2 Mico Edition code lately, and sadly enough,
Motorola's implementation for their IDEN phones won't accept any other
certificate for an https connection except VeriSign.

> I try to stay as far away from NS and ICANN as I can. I found that
> the people running .to have much more user friendly policies, though
> I pay a bit more. Their registry is first come first serve. They don't
> publish your name, phone number or email address in their whois database.
> They also don't like spammers.

And here I thought you lived in the Kingtom of Tonga! :-)

Mike Mascari
mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com