ICANN has sent a second letter to Verisign asking them to suspend the SiteFinder service that I’ve talked about in a few posts here. The key bit of the letter is:

VeriSign must suspend the changes to the .com and .net top-level domains introduced on 15 September 2003 by 6:00 PM PDT on 4 October 2003. Failure to comply with this demand by that time will leave ICANN with no choice but to seek promptly to enforce VeriSign’s contractual obligations.

So, ICANN have asked Verisign to turn it off again, with a serious time limit this time. But will they do it? Let’s see.

More analysis over at slashdot.

Update: The Register is reporting that Verisign have agreed turned it off. It still seems to be active here.

Update Mon 6 OctEverything has returned to pre-Verisign normal. Proper NXDOMAIN responses are now being returned. (And this makes me very happy).