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Sites about alleged unethical or illegal conduct by Verisign.

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• Advisory Concerning Demand to Remove VeriSign's Wildcard

  http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-03oct03.htm
  ICANN announcement that it has issued an ultimatum to VeriSign over the widespread harmful effects of the registrar's unilateral implementation of wildcards for .com and .net.

• All your Web typos are belong to us

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/16/all_your_web_typos/
  Reports that network admins are furious at Verisign for redirecting requests for nonexistent domains to an advertisement. [The Register]

• Confirmation Request e-mail from VeriSign

  http://thorweb.anta.net/nic/verisign-evac.shtml
  Text of a form e-mail sent by VeriSign to seek confirmation of a registrar change request and criticism of this process' implementation.

• Have you read what VeriSign is doing?

  http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030917&mode=classic
  Cartoon commentary on DNS wildcards. Readers voice their opinions. [User Friendly]

• ICANN panel condemns Site Finder

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1028_3-5267759.html
  A report says that VeriSign's redirection of nonexistent domain names to its own site violated accepted norms of conduct, and harmed businesses and individual Internet users. [CNET News.com]

• Jeffrey Zeldman: 2 March 2001

  http://www.zeldman.com/daily/com0301a.html#oneohoh
  Conclusion to a tale of poor service from Verisign.

• Suit filed over VeriSign domain redirect

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5083161.html
  Longtime Internet litigator Ira Rothken has filed a class action suit against VeriSign over the registrar's redirection of mistyped .com and .net names to a search page it controls. [CNET News.com]

• Verisign Accused of DNS Slamming

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/26/verisign_accused_of_dns_slamming/
  Thomas C. Greene writes: "Now Verisign (formerly Network Solutions) is taking heat for a practice which borders on registrar slamming." [The Register]

• VeriSign Redirects Error Pages

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1032-5077530.html
  CNET News article about the company's surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names.

• Verisign Reportedly Sending Deceptive Domain Registration Bills

  http://www.politechbot.com/p-03298.html
  Warning mail from GoDaddy Software to its customers about deceptive expiration notices which transfer registration to Verisign at triple the renewal cost. [Politech]

• Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo

  http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7009
  VeriSign's pay-for-play search, which appears for all unregistered .com and .net web sites, tries to set a cookie for a third party. Privacy advocates also worry that the registrar may be harvesting e-mail addresses. [SecurityFocus]

• VeriSign's redirect page leaking data

  http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/30/1064819912915.html
  The search page at VeriSign, which appears for all mistyped .com and .net sites, passes information to a marketing firm. A computer security researcher said that this could include personal information. [The Sydney Morning Herald]

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