Report: Verisign halts Sitefinder redirection scheme

[Chris Chiu]

Mr. Schneiders, Raul: thank you for your comments. It is true that Verisign's decision came soon after ICANN reiterated its demand for Verisign to end the scheme. However, it is unclear precisely when the shutdown will occur, although ICANN had set a deadline of 18:00 Pacific Daylight Time (03:00 Central European Time, 22:00 in Uruguay, 21:00 in New York). We'll see...

Sincerely,
Christopher Chiu
Technology Policy Analyst
American Civil Liberties Union



-----Original Message-----
From: Raul Echeberria [mailto:raul at lacnic.net]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 4:45 PM
To: Chris Chiu; NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Report: Verisign halts Sitefinder redirection scheme


At 04:26 p.m. 03/10/2003 -0400, Chris Chiu wrote:
>Domain name giant Verisign has reportedly shutdown its controversial 
>Sitefinder system, at least for the time being. Under this system, people 
>who mistyped various .com and .net names were sent to a special section of 
>the Verisign website (rather than an error page) which provided 
>suggestions as to the correct names of desired webpages and included a 
>Verisign Sitefinder search-engine.
>
>See
>http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/#highlights
>
>Sincerely,
>Christopher Chiu
>Technology Policy Analyst
>American Civil Liberties Union


Chris:

It is still working.

Raul