Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 18:44:24 -0400, > Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
