Verisign has lost the plot, by adding wildcard entries for anything .net and anything .com on the root nameservers, so any previously unregistered hostnames or typos are redirected to a Verisign search portalcalled SiteFinder, which one of those annoying advertising and search things that we are used to seeing on ‘parked’ domains.

Note, this works for every unregistered .com and .net name. It’s easy enough to test, type anything into the browser.

This breaks lots of stuff, especially mail delivery and SPAM filtering. It is a nasty perversion of the Domain Name Service (DNS) as well. It goes against a lot of years of co-operative use of DNS to allow all of us to use the Internet.

I’m pissed off by this.

I’m removing my domains from their management. Please do the same. They are showing gross irresponsibility in my opinion.

News reports:

Verisign slammed for helping Spammers (ZDNet Australia)

Thanks, Verisign, for breaking the Internet (salon.com)