Autor: Krzysztof Cynarski (chris97spam_n_at_bigfoot.com)
Data: Thu 25 Sep 2003 - 09:45:53 MET DST
Witam wszystkich
Jak się właśnie dowiedziałem GoDaddy zdecydował się na złożenie pozwu na
firmę Verisign w związku z jej praktykami dotyczącymi założenia wilcardów na
TDL .net .com. Jak pewnie wszyscy wiemy od pewnego czasu wszystkie(!!!),
nawet nieistniejące domeny .com i .net są rozwiązywane. W przypadku
nieistniejących domen wywołanie przekierowywane jest na strone reklamową
Verisign
Poniżej oryginalna wiadomość z godaddy.
Dear Valued Go Daddy Customer,
Have you ever needed to ask for directions while you were driving? Let's say
you stopped to ask a trusted authority, like a police officer.
You'd expect that officer to be honest, right? Wouldn't you expect him or
her to provide you a safe, direct route to where you needed to go? I sure
would.
But what if that officer instead misdirected you to a shopping mall? A
shopping mall, it turns out, that actually paid the officer for every sale
that resulted?
That would be an abuse of the police officer's authority. It would be
capitalizing on your misfortune.
We believe that's what VeriSign is doing with its "Site Finder" marketing
scheme. We believe that it is once again abusing the power to oversee all
com and .net domains it was granted by the U.S. government.
Go Daddy is now suing in federal court to stop them.
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HERE'S HOW VERISIGN'S SCHEME CAN AFFECT YOU:
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+ It will MISDIRECT YOU FROM YOUR INTENDED DESTINATION and even MISLEAD
YOU ABOUT ITS STATUS.
If you type any .com or .net address into your browser that isn't already
registered, VeriSign hijacks you -- and sends you to an advertising page
that they own. This can occur even when you type in a site that is
registered, but is not displaying temporarily. Used to be, if you made a
mistake in typing an address -- which is the usual reason for not finding a
site -- you would see either a "404" error page, or a help page that your
browser would generate. Now though, VeriSign has hijacked this entire
process and puts up a paid-advertising page, the so-called Site Finder.
+ It will COST YOU MONEY.
Advertisers pay VeriSign to position links to their services that look
similar to the misspelled address. And that means you may well find your way
to a competitor, rather than to your intended destination. Simply navigating
on the Internet will be more frustrating and more expensive for consumers.
Companies will be forced to purchase every imaginable misspelling of their
names to prevent their customers from being hijacked by Site Finder, and the
cost will be passed on to you. To VeriSign, of course, these forced domain
registrations just mean more revenue.
+ It will mean MORE SPAM HEADED FOR YOUR INBOX.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across the globe have committed valuable
time and resources to developing systems that prevent spam from reaching
your mailbox. One of the more successful methods checks to see whether the
domain name of the inbound email resolves to an actual Web site. If it
doesn't, that means the domain is fake, so your ISP doesn't let it through.
Now, though, spammers can use any phony domains they want, because all fake
domains will "resolve" to the Site Finder page! Go Daddy's spam filter, Spam
Xploder(TM), will not be affected because it uses Bayesian filtering
technology, instead of relying on the DNS servers, to determine if email is
spam or not.
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