RE: [inbox] Re: [Full-Disclosure] Petition against VeriSlime's DNS abuse

["Exibar" <exibar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

nah, all you need is to enter the following line in your HOSTS file:

216.239.53.99 sitefinder.verisign.com

  That way you'll get google's error message and never have to see Verisign's 
shit again :-)

  Exibar
  -----Original Message-----
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[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jonathan A. 
Zdziarski
  Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:54 PM
  To: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
  Cc: Full Disclosure
  Subject: [inbox] Re: [Full-Disclosure] Petition against VeriSlime's DNS abuse


The financial backing is non-trivial. You're going to need some pretty
serious big iron, and some pretty bad-ass bandwidth.
  Non-profit doesn't necessarily mean doesn't make any money.  The registries 
are already paying to register domains in the first place.  I'm not opposed to 
some trivial per-domain fee to pay for the whole project.  Aside from 
self-funding though, think of how many registries are willing to kick serious 
money into a project that would remove Verisign as a monopoly over the space.  
You can bet on BuyDomains.com and BulkRegister.com would get materially 
involved.


Oh.. and you'll need trusted and experienced people, and be willing to pay them.
  I didn't say it was something that could be done overnight =) If the 
community wanted to do this, you'd need to get people together and put together 
a business plan just like you would if you were starting a business - it's not 
just a big project, it's a HUGE project, and one that requires the utmost 
critical planning.  I don't think there'll be any shortage of trusted and 
experienced people though =).  


Don't like how a TLD is run? Talk to ICANN and the administrator of that TLD.
  If it's as simple as establishing a set of rules to govern all of the 
registries (or risk getting your TLD dropped - obviously an extremely serious 
consequence) I'm all for it as opposed to reorganizing.  Remember though, ICANN 
are the ones who approved a Waiting List service for Verisign.  It seems to me 
that they wouldn't be interested in enforcing some of these more serious issues.