charlie
2003-09-17, 20:43 PM
Has anyone seen or been involved with any issues caused by Verisign's jerk move of having all non-existant domains point to their site? Apparently it's suppose to cause problems with some spam fighting tools.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5077530.html 4
VeriSign redirects error pages
Criticism is quickly growing over VeriSign's surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names, a move that has wreaked havoc on many e-mail utilities and antispam filters.
On Monday, VeriSign began to redirect domain lookups for misspelled or nonexistent names to its own site, a process that has confused Internet e-mail utilities and drawn angry denunciations of the company's business practices from frustrated network administrators. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company enjoys a government-granted monopoly as the master database administrator for .com and .net. ...
i'm not sure what the symptons are, like what kind of error messages i'll get back but i am having some e-mail issues with some of my clients and i'm wondering if it's related.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5077530.html 4
VeriSign redirects error pages
Criticism is quickly growing over VeriSign's surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names, a move that has wreaked havoc on many e-mail utilities and antispam filters.
On Monday, VeriSign began to redirect domain lookups for misspelled or nonexistent names to its own site, a process that has confused Internet e-mail utilities and drawn angry denunciations of the company's business practices from frustrated network administrators. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company enjoys a government-granted monopoly as the master database administrator for .com and .net. ...
i'm not sure what the symptons are, like what kind of error messages i'll get back but i am having some e-mail issues with some of my clients and i'm wondering if it's related.