Sitefinder suspended

4 Oct 2003

I guess the big news today is that Verisign has suspended its controversial sitefinder services after pressure from ICANN.

ICANN is using anecdotal and isolated issues to attempt to regulate nonregistry services, but in the interests of further working with the technical community, we will temporarily suspend Site Finder.

This sounds to me like they are taking it down for now, but will be back once their legal types went through the fine print of their contracts. Maybe the ICANN board has been smoking the same stuff that SCO has been smoking.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Saturday, October 4, 2003 at 1:27 AM

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