Verisign has responded to ICANN’s request to turn off the SiteFinder service with this letter.

After a bunch of concilliatory blah, blah, they say this:

As to your call for us to suspend the service, I would respectfully suggest that it would be premature to decide on any course of action until we first have had an opportunity to collect and review the available data. After completing an assessment of any operational impact of our wildcard implementation, we will take any appropriate steps necessary.

So, they are not turning it off, as ICANN requested.

Off we go then , patching all our name servers to stop their change breaking things like spam detection and email. What a huge waste of human effort. We could have done useful things for ourselves and others with the time we get to waste patching bind.

Obviously, Verisign is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Thanks to slashdot the link to the letter.