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Verisign Reborn
Domain redirection system to return in spring?
Verisign is considering relaunching their controversial Sitefinder initiative as early as this April, says company executives. "Site Finder was not controversial with users, 84 percent of whom said they liked it as a helpful navigation service," says one of the company's executives. When enabled, users who accidentally enter non-existent URLS are redirected to an ad-laden web portal instead of the traditional 404. Critics charge the company is taking advantage of their position as domain name manager. According to Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president of government relations, opposition to the project comes from "an ideological belief by a narrow section of the technological community who don't believe you should innovate the core infrastructure of the Internet." The Washington Post has additional detail.

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Buzz word...

There's that magically bux word. innovate...
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According to Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president of government relations, opposition to the project comes from "an ideological belief by a narrow section of the technological community who don't believe you should innovate the core infrastructure of the Internet."
So breaking internet protocols like SMTP, etc. in an effort to boost your profits is what's considered innovation ? I'm starting to get the feeling that commercializing some parts of the internet wasn't a good idea. Verisign's job should have been given to a non-profit group.

I'm just glad most ISPs have patched their name servers to block sitefinder because Verisign can take their standards busting innovation and shove it.