VeriSign Sued Over SiteFinder Service 403
dmehus writes "It was only a matter of time, the pundits said, and they were right. Popular Enterprises, LLC., an Orlando, Florida based cybersquatting so-called 'search services' company, has filed a lawsuit in Orlando federal court against VeriSign, Inc. over VeriSign's controversial SiteFinder 'service.' While PopularEnterprises has had a dodgy history of buying up thousands of expired domain names and redirecting them to its Netster.com commercial "search services" site, the lawsuit is most likely a good thing, as it provides one more avenue to pursue in getting VeriSign to terminate SiteFinder. According to the lawsuit, the company contends alleges antitrust violations, unfair competition and violations of the Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. It asks the court to order VeriSign to put a halt to the service. VeriSign spokesperson Brian O'Shaughnessy said the company has not yet seen the lawsuit and that it doesn't comment on pending litigation."
Arrrrrr! (Score:4, Funny)
The pool (Score:5, Funny)
Try this in I.E. (Score:2, Funny)
don't u love these spokespeople (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Arrrrrr! (Score:4, Funny)
Talk like a pirate day [talklikeapirate.com]
I'm not surprised... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Give them a break, they just want more hit (Score:1, Funny)
Right... (Score:5, Funny)
Then when the press questions the astronomers on how their orbital calculations could have been so wrong, the astronomers (being the clever guys they are) will say, "but are calculations were right!" and then erupt in maniacal laughter.
I for one welcome our new...[looks up at the sky]...never mind, I didn't start to say anything. Nope, nothing at all.
Re:Give them a break, they just want more hit (Score:5, Funny)
Re:don't u love these spokespeople (Score:3, Funny)
Note to self (Score:3, Funny)
SCO (need you ask?)
Verisign (screwed by em long before this)
SBC (for not blocking Verisign)
Microsoft (ya just gotta)
RIAA (You don't sue your customers. Solve the problem!)
Sun (for the abomination called Java)
Gray Davis (because he DOES suck)
Cruz Bustamante (Don't give him a CHANCE to suck)
Note to self:
Get more RAM for Notes to self
Funny Stuff (Score:3, Funny)
"We didn't find www.microsoft.com"
"There is no web site at this address."
Only in a perfect world...
Re:Pert Peeve (Score:5, Funny)
A great minor evil. That's a new one on me.
Re:Most ISPs have blocked it (Score:5, Funny)
Thats part of Verisigns new "Shock and Jaw" Campaign.
Verisign should be forced to pay the ICANN $$$ (Score:2, Funny)
If I were to make it so that every unique domain on the internet went to my server, I would have to pay a Google's worth of cash (well, maybe some pun intended. But, long live Google! The best search engine and popup blocked!).
Anybody up for making a wget script to fetch a bad host with a 32 bit integer on the end until the end of time? I'm a Software Architect but feel like playing script kiddie for a day.
Journalists should not write tech stories (Score:5, Funny)
Typically, Internet users are shown a generic "404 -- cannot be found" page when a Web address does not exist.
Sooooo, if the web server can't be found, who's sending the HTTP 404 response (which incidentally means that a file on a server doesn't exist...)?
comparison (Score:5, Funny)
- most hated company on the internet
- most stupid business moves
- most obvious 'shoot self in foot' maneuvre
I expect that slashdot would implode if SCO sued Verisign for this maneuvre. Do you cheer because one of them will lose? Or groan because one will win?
Re:Owning a domain you don't use (Score:3, Funny)
Aah those were the days. Some idiot for example paid me $1500 for a T0P10.COM domain...probably buyer didn't understand that the second O is a zero.
Re:comparison (Score:4, Funny)
Cheer, because both of them would be wasting money on a lawsuit.
Cry, if that lawsuit provided precedent for either of their parasitic business models.
Re:Null space needs to remain null (Score:3, Funny)
Damn, that'd deep.
script: a day at Verisign (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Owning a domain you don't use (Score:1, Funny)
Official Verisign Response (Score:4, Funny)
Official Verisign Response [verisign.com]
Good has come out of this for me. (Score:3, Funny)
Now I can charge my clients for setting up a DNS server on their local networks on any spare crap machine they have lying around, making their networks more resilient to ISP DNS outages and crap like this.
Now I have every excuse I might need to move all my clients name registrations to another registrar ASAP, and all the reason I need to not use VeriSign, or be plagued by their idiot customer service ever again!
Thank you Verisign, for teaching me how to laugh about love...again.
Re:Dear VeriSign, Thanks for the spam. (Score:4, Funny)
To: abuse@verisign.com
From:
Dear DNS administrators,
The mail server I am administering is experiencing a problem with spam. I have
not getten check_rcpt rule checks in the
now returning an A record, even though they are not registered domains. Please
correct this error in your servers.
Thank you,
Re:comparison (Score:3, Funny)