Re: Verisign hijacked unused .COM and .NET domains

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 09/19/03 

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:26:56 GMT

Mark Crispin wrote:

> For the rest of us, dealing with Verisign/Network Solutions is like
> undergoing some slightly disgusting medical procedure such as an enema.
> It was something that you endured rather than sometime you choose to
> undertake, in the perception that there was either no alternative or the
> alternatives came up short in terms of the above-mentioned criteria.

Mark, Mark, Mark. I know lots of peope who hold parties to do painful
things I would consider wildly inappropriate, even distasteful. Their
lives, their problems. You are not the keeper of the One True Way, and
never have been.

Now, Verisign is a pain in the ass. Their model of "you shall all trust
us to be the root of all signatures" is extremely dangerous and allows
even a modest slippage of security at that root level (such as through a
Patriot Act authorized search) to imperil security software security
worldwide. And this wildcarding is just as grabby, sleazy, and almost as
dangerous as a lot of their other software and business practices. It
should provide additional incentive to take back those root servers.

But they're fast enough on responding to domain management requests and
key requests to handle most of corporate America's needs, which is their
big market, so they're not going away tomorrow.

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